The next world war : tribes, cities, nations and ecological decline /
Pre-occupied with the war on terrorism, we have lost sight of a more dangerous enemy of social peace and progress - the inability of the world's people to access the ecological goods and services they need to maintain and build their societies. By 2025, the combined demands of continued economi...
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2004.
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Obsah:
- Part I: the enemy is ecological decline
- A shift in the angle of vision
- Provisioning societies
- Part II: from common genes to the global economy
- Round one: the spread of hunter-gatherer societies
- Round two: the rise and spread of agricultural societies
- Round three: urbanization
- Round four: from city-states to nations
- Round five: reliance on global business networks
- The organization and potential of round five
- Part III: the twenty-five year challenge to growth and social stability
- From egalitarian tribes to global inequity
- Ecological roadblocks to growth and poverty reduction
- The catalysts of calamity
- Part IV: the war to provision in the world
- Our common enemy
- Mobilizing nations for war
- Mobilizing the international community
- Round six: the age of global provisioning.