The Future Eaters

Forward - Charles Jervis			iii-iv
Preface - John Cairns, Jr..			v
Table of Contents			vi-vii
	Chapter 1	The Future Eaters	1-5
	Chapter 2	The Tyranny of Tipping Points	6
	Chapter 3	Cast Changes on the Ecological Stage of Earth's Evolutionary Theater	7-10
	Chapter 4	Phantom Lands and Ghost Slaves: Humankinds Addiction to Fossil Fuel	11-20
	Chapter 5	Global Tower of Babel	21-22
	Chapter 6	Human Alteration of Evolutionary Processes	23-26
	Chapter 7	Compassion, Catastrophe, and Change	27-31
	Chapter 8	Surprise, Surprise, Heat Melts Ice	32-34
	Chapter 9	Lifeboat Ethics: To Sink or Not to Sink	35-39
	Chapter 10	Creating an Alien Planet	40-44
	Chapter 11	Decalogue for a Planet in Imminent Peril	45
	Chapter 12	The End of the Cornucopian Delusion	46-52
	Chapter 13	The Numbers of Forever	53-55
	Chapter 14	Voluntary Income Tax, Voluntary Speed Limits	56-59
	Chapter 15	Wear It Out, Use It Up, Make It Do, Do Without	60-66
	Chapter 16	Mother Nature Does Not Bargain or Forgive	67-73
	Chapter 17	The Mother of All Positive Feedback Loops	74-76
	Chapter 18	Just Give Me a Freeze-Dried Talking Fish on a Stick	77
	Chapter 19	"Hail Mary" Technologies to Engineer Earth's Climate	78-81
	Chapter 20	Ecological Overshoot is Suicidal	82
	Chapter 21	The End of Abundance: Will It Bring Resource Wars or Sharing?	83
	Chapter 22	Let's Talk About the Elephant in the Living Room	84
	Chapter 23	How Much Space on Earth Should Be Allocated to the Biospheric Life Support System?	85-86
	Chapter 24	The Intellectual Electric Fence	87-89
	Chapter 25	Adapting to the New Biosphere	90-91
	Chapter 26	Your Personal Responsibility for Earth	92-93
	Chapter 27	Conditions for Crew Membership on Spaceship Earth	94-95
	Chapter 28	The Midas Touch in the 21st Century	96
	Chapter 29	Humankind's Faustian "Pact" with Fossil Fuels	97-98
	Chapter 30	The 21st Century Fountain of Youth	99
	Chapter 31	Putting the Cart Before the Horse	100-101
	Chapter 32	21st Century Cassandras in an Era of Climate Change Denial	102
	Chapter 33	"The Gift of the Magi": A Metaphor for Slashing Living Standards in the 21st Century	103-104
	Chapter 34	Globalization or Perish	105
	Chapter 35	The Country Mouse and the City Mouse	106
	Chapter 36	The Bee Hive: Controlling Environmental Temperature with No Brains	107
	Chapter 37	Lessons from Avoiding Overpopulation: "Primitive" Polynesians	108
	Chapter 38	Life is Uncertain: Get Used to It	109
	Chapter 39	Fisherman and His Wife: More Does Not Make You Happy	110
	Chapter 40	Better the Devil You Know Than the Devil You Don't	111

02/12/12