Ecological Degradation Past and Present

A Trilogy

von Sing C. Chew

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In his trilogy of environmental studies¿World Ecological Degradation, The Recurring Dark Ages, and Ecological Futures¿Sing Chew surveys 5,000 years of human history and finds a distinctive, recurring pattern: Civilizations that amass vast wealth do so by exhausting their environment, thus sowing the seeds of their collapse. Again and again, Chew observes, periods of over-accumulation are followed by extreme environmental degradation, the collapse of social systems, and a Dark Age. Today, at the beginning of the third millennium A.D., we are in the midst of a period of unprecedented accumulation, this time on a global scale, and we are experiencing worldwide environmental degradation, from the ozone layer to the rain forest. If past is prologue, Chew warns, then modern mankind may face a broad collapse of social systems and an unsettling future.

• Reihe: AltaMira Press
• ISBN: 9780759112032
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2008
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC