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After progress : reason and religion at the end of the industrial age /

Progress is not just a goal in the West. It's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don't actually mat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greer, John Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gabriola, Brithsh Columbia : New Society Publishers, [2015]
Subjects:	Progress. Reason. Religion.

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