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Time, Progress, Growth and Technology - How Humans and the Earth are Responding (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Time, Progress, Growth and Technology - How Humans and the Earth are Responding (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable
development, including its social, economic and environmental
components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept
of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both
on the long- and the short term. The evolution of man's notions of
time are analyzed from prehistory to modern times, showing how
these concepts shape our worldviews, our ecological paradigms and
our equilibrium with our planet. Practical approaches to dealing
with the major medium- and long term sustainability challenges of
the 21st century are presented and discussed. This is a thought
provoking and timely book that addresses the main global
socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the current and
future generations, using science-based analysis and perspectives.
It presents an historical narrative of the advent of progress,
economic growth and technology, and discusses the structural
changes needed to co-create sustainable pathways. It provides hope
for our future on Earth, mankind's common home. Antonio Guterres,
Secretary-General of the United Nations This is an amazing, almost
mind-boggling book. The author takes a look at the true whole,
i.e., the development of the human enterprise since its very
beginning. This enterprise is evidently a possibility under the
boundary conditions of cosmological dynamics and natural evolution,
but evidently also a highly improbable one. It is all but a miracle
that the Earth system in its present form exists and happens to
support a technical civilization. Will this civilization last long,
will it transform itself into something even more exceptional, or
will it perish in disgrace? Santos dares to address these grandest
of all questions, equipped with a unique transdisciplinary wisdom
drawing on physics, cybernetics, geology, biology, economics,
anthropology, history, and philosophy. And he dares to dive into
the deepest abysses of thinking, where categorial monsters like
time and progress lurk. Thereby, he takes us on fascinating
journey, during which we perceive and grasp things we have never
seen and understood before. One of the best essays I have ever
read. John Schellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German
Advisory Council on Global Change
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