Title Page, Forward, Preface &
Acknowledgements (added 3/31/11)
Table of Contents
(updated 5/27/11)
Chapter 1 - Earth's
Biosphere (updated 5/22/11)
Chapter 2 - Threats to the Biosphere:
Eight Interactive Global Crises (added
3/31/11)
Chapter 3 - Global Discourse on Interactive
Crises (added
3/31/11)
Chapter 4 - The Triumph of Ideology in
an Increasingly Fact Free World (added
5/22/11)
Chapter 5 - Biospheric
Intergenerational Ethics (added
5/22/11)
Chapter 6 - A Worst Case Scenario for
Continuing Business as Usual (added
5/27/11)
Chapter 7 - A Covenant for the
Biosphere (added
5/27/11)
Chapter 8 - Existential Risks
Involving Earth's Biosphere (added
8/10/11)
Chapter 9 - Petition of the
Candlemakers Against the Sun (added
8/22/11)
Chapter 10 - Redistribution of
Earth's Resources by Global Policy or Laws of Nature? (added
8/22/11)
Chapter 11 - The Biosphere:
Humanity's Common Wealth (added
9/26/11)
Chapter 12 - A Social Contract for
Preserving and Nurturing the Present Biosphere (added
10/5/11)
Chapter 13 - Biospheric Refugees (added
10/10/11)
Chapter 14 - Chaos Theory and
Biospheric "Surprises" (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 15 - Earth's Biosphere: The
Global Commons (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 16 - Eliminating the
Biospheric Refugee Crisis (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 17 - Partially Global to
Tribal: Will Humankind Be Forced to Make the Transition? (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 18 - Biospheric Resources and
Growth (added
12/18/11)
Chapter 19 - Economic Growth and the
Biosphere (added
12/18/11)
Chapter 20 - Primary Sources of Human
Wealth: The Biosphere and Knowledge (added
12/18/11)
Chapter 21 - Carrying Capacity for
Humans in a Financially Globalized World (added
1/19/12)
Chapter 22 - Facing Reality on
Sustainability (added
1/19/12)
Chapter 23 - The Ultimate Tipping
Point: Destruction of the Biosphere (added
2/12/12)
Chapter 24 - The Ultimate Feedback
Loop and the Inevitable Tipping Point (added
2/18/12)
Chapter 25 - Living Within Biospheric
Limits (added
3/19/12)
Chapter 26 - Denial of Scientific
Evidence: A Major Threat to the Biosphere (and You) (added
3/19/12)
Chapter 27 - Preserving the Present
Biosphere Requires Steady State Economics (added
4/3/12)
Chapter 28 - The Ninth Threat to the
Biosphere: Human Thought Processes (added
4/3/12)
Chapter 29 - Warnings from the
Biosphere (added
4/17/12)
Chapter 30 - Getting to Know
Humanity's Life Support System: Earth's Biosphere* (added
5/8/12)
Chapter 31 - Transition from a Human
Centered to a Biosphere Centered World View (added
6/13/12)
Chapter 32 - The Loss of Biospheric
Resources: Humanity's Ethical Challenge (added
6/13/12)
Chapter 33 - Reason Awake:
Catastrophes May Fail to Change Public Indifference to Biosphere Damage (added
7/31/12)
Chapter 34 - Defining Goals and
Conditions for Nurturing the Present Biosphere (added
8/6/12)
Chapter 35 - Mutually Assured
Destruction (MAD)*: The Biosphere, Homo Sapiens, and the Human
Economy (added
8/10/12)
Chapter 36 - Evolving Toward an
Evidence-Based/Ethical Value-Based Society to Nurture Earth's Biosphere (added
8/16/12)
Chapter 37 - Critical Thinking, the
Common Good, and the New Normal Global Climate (added
9/17/12)
Chapter 38 - The Catastrophic Risks
of Ignoring the "New Normal" Climate (added
10/5/12)
Chapter 39 - Assisted Biotic
Colonization to Preserve the Present Biosphere (added
10/19/12)
Chapter 40 - To Survive, Humanity
Must Learn More About the Larger System of Which It is a Part: The
Present Biosphere (added
10/25/12)
Chapter 41 - Facing Reality to
Preserve the Present Biosphere (added
11/13/12)
Chapter 42 - Future Availability of
Biospheric Resources: How Will Humans Frame Their World Views? (added
12/5/12)
Chapter 43 - Catastrophic Climate
Change and the Biosphere (added
12/14/12)
Chapter 44 - Deliberately Creating an
Alien Planet (added
12/20/12)
Chapter 45 - Fossil Sunlight vs
Renewable Sunlight (added
2/11/13)
Chapter 46 - Protect the World's
Children: Leave a Habitable Planet for Posterity (added
2/28/13)
Chapter 47 - Oikos, Economics,
Ecology, and the Future of the Sixth Biosphere (added
3/18/13)
