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Forward - Charles
Jervis |
iii-iv |
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Preface - John
Cairns, Jr. |
v |
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Table of Contents |
vi-vii |
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The Future
Eaters |
1-5 |
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The Tyranny of Tipping Points |
6 |
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Cast Changes on
the Ecological Stage of Earth's Evolutionary Theater |
7-10 |
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Phantom Lands
and Ghost Slaves: Humankinds Addiction to Fossil Fuel |
11-20 |
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Global Tower of Babel |
21-22 |
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Human
Alteration of Evolutionary Processes |
23-26 |
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Compassion, Catastrophe, and Change |
27-31 |
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Surprise,
Surprise, Heat Melts Ice |
32-34 |
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Lifeboat
Ethics: To Sink or Not to Sink |
35-39 |
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Creating an Alien Planet |
40-44 |
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Decalogue for a Planet in Imminent Peril |
45 |
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The End
of the Cornucopian Delusion |
46-52 |
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The
Numbers of Forever |
53-55 |
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Voluntary Income Tax, Voluntary Speed Limits |
56-59 |
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Wear It Out,
Use It Up, Make It Do, Do Without |
60-66 |
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Mother Nature
Does Not Bargain or Forgive |
67-73 |
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The Mother
of All Positive Feedback Loops |
74-76 |
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Just
Give Me a Freeze-Dried Talking Fish on a Stick |
77 |
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"Hail Mary"
Technologies to Engineer Earth's Climate |
78-81 |
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Ecological Overshoot is Suicidal |
82 |
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The End
of Abundance: Will It Bring Resource Wars or Sharing? |
83 |
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Let's Talk About the Elephant in the Living Room |
84 |
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How
Much Space on Earth Should Be Allocated to the Biospheric
Life Support System? |
85-86 |
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The Intellectual Electric Fence |
87-89 |
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Adapting to
the New Biosphere |
90-91 |
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Your
Personal Responsibility for Earth |
92-93 |
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Conditions
for Crew Membership on Spaceship Earth |
94-95 |
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The Midas Touch
in the 21st Century |
96 |
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Humankind's
Faustian "Pact" with Fossil Fuels |
97-98 |
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The 21st
Century Fountain of Youth |
99 |
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Putting the Cart Before the Horse |
100-101 |
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21st Century Cassandras in an Era of Climate Change Denial |
102 |
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"The
Gift of the Magi": A Metaphor for Slashing Living Standards
in the 21st Century |
103-104 |
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Globalization or Perish |
105 |
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The Country
Mouse and the City Mouse |
106 |
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The Bee Hive: Controlling Environmental Temperature with No
Brains |
107 |
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Lessons from Avoiding Overpopulation: "Primitive"
Polynesians |
108 |
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Life is
Uncertain: Get Used to It |
109 |
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Fisherman and His Wife: More Does Not Make You Happy |
110 |
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Better the
Devil You Know Than the Devil You Don't |
111-112 |
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'Tis
the Gift to be Simple |
113-114 |
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A
Stitch in Time Saves Nine |
115-116 |
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We Never
Know the Worth of Water Til the Well is Dry |
117-118 |
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England and America are Two Countries Separated by a Common
Language |
119-120 |
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Prevention is Better Than Cure |
121-122 |
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The
Frog Does Not Drink Up the Pond in Which It Lives |
123-124 |
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The Iron Law of Climate Policy |
125-126 |
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All
the World's a Stage .... |
127-129 |
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The
Environment is Nice as Long as It's Free |
130-131 |
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Exit the Cornucopian Era: Enter the Era of Scarcity |
132-133 |
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The
Apple Never Falls Far From the Tree |
134 |
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Living with Respect for the Biosphere |
135-136 |
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Frugal Living:
Do We Have a Choice? |
137-138 |
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Searching for Truth Where You Live |
139-140 |
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Surviving Nature's
Dark Side |
141-143 |
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Should I Become a Scientist? |
144-146 |
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You Can't Stop Progress! |
147-149 |
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"See You Later Alligator. After a While Crocodile" |
150-151 |
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The Vision
Thing |
152-154 |
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Tough Decision vs Denial |
155-157 |
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The Monkey Trap |
158 |
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The Peril of Replacing Science with Ideology |
159-161 |
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The Consequences
of Global Human Dominance |
162-164 |
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King Canute and
the Universal Laws of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology |
165 |
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Why Humankind
is Not Living Sustainably |
166-167 |
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Compassion vs Resource Scarcity |
168-170 |
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The Greatest Experiment in Human History: Why is it Being
Ignored? |
171-172 |
