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Limits of Civilization

Autor Andrew Targowski
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2017
This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population expansions were halted. This resulted in the world becoming aware of the crisis of civilisation. Measures were taken to reduce the consumption of the strategic resources, including the promotion of recycling resources used. Efforts were made internationally to introduce the practice of climate and environmental protection, to little avail. The present book has a wider scope of analysis and synthesis, and even gloomier conclusions than those found in the two pioneering books. This author has arrived at the following conclusions: The plight of civilisation is doomed by the sun expiring within 4.5 billion years. It is also determined by the exhaustion of the known and the potential resources of the small planet Earth around the year 5,000. The future of civilisation (considered in the time frame imaginable to man) is swayed by its current crisis, which results from the Triangle of Civilization Death (the combination of the bombs of population, ecology and depletion of strategic resources), which will be felt around 2050; The future of civilisation is dependent on its capability of entering the phase of Wise and Universal Civilisation in the years to come. This is conditioned upon the abandonment of the known socio-political and economic systems: capitalism, socialism, communism and their hybrids. These systems are based on the constant growth of population and the economy, which is unsustainable any longer; Democratic Ecologism ought to be the new system, securing a wise and sustainable functioning of civilisation; it would prioritise the ecosystem in the choices made by man and societies. What must be observed, too, is tolerance based on Spirituality 2.0. It is based on the Decalogue of Complementary Values derived from the main religions 1.0, which the world is now practicing. Is it possible to introduce these solutions to practical life? This is up to people becoming wiser. Alas, so far people do not even know what wisdom is since wisdom is not taught at school or college. And without wisdom, no civilisation stands any chance of success in the universe of systemic chaos.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781536107562
ISBN-10: 1536107565
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Nova Science Publishers Inc
Colecția Nova Science Publishers Inc

Cuprins

Foreword; A Note About the Author; The Nature of Civilization; How Civilizations Perish; The Second Great Crisis of Civilization in History; The Global Civilization Development & Its Repercussions; The Death Triangle of Civilization in the 21st Century; Capitalism & the 21st Century Limits of Civilization; Superconsumerism in the 21st Century; Technology & the Limits of Civilization in the 21st Century; Climate & the 21st Century Limits of Civilization; Culture & the 21st Century Limits of Civilization; The Power of Crisis Relations & the Limits of Civilization in the 21st Century; Can Civilization Last?; Where Are We Heading?; Bibliography; Index.

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"This book is the culmination of a lifetime of thought by a great civilizationalist about some of the most difficult challenges now facing the human race. Ranging across diverse fields of theoretical inquiry, Targowski's arguments need to be confronted and addressed urgently by all those trying to make sense out of the difficulties of the present, in order to work effectively for a more hopeful future." - Reviewed by David J. Rosner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Metropolitan College of New York, President, International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations