Time, Progress, Growth and Technology

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Editorial: Springer International Publishing Sep 2020, 2020

3030553329 / 9783030553326

Serie: Libro 76 de 82 - The Frontiers Collection

Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, AlemaniaBuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K.

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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 21stcentury are presented and discussed.This is a thought provoking and timely bookthat addresses the main global socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the current and future generations, usingscience-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.António Guterres,Secretary-General of the United NationsThis 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 atechnical 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 categorialmonsters liketimeandprogresslurk. 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) andformer chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change 728 pp. Englisch.…

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Título
Time, Progress, Growth and Technology
Autor
Filipe Duarte Santos
Editorial
Springer International Publishing Sep 2020
Año de publicación
2020
Estado
Neu
Encuadernación
Buch
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
3030553329
ISBN 13
9783030553326
Peso del artículo
1244 gramos
Dimensiones
241x160x45 mm
Serie
Libro 76 de 82: The Frontiers Collection

BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K.

Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania

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