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Growth Growth Growth : Human History and the Planetary Catastrophe /

"Growth growth growth retells history as a succession of a pivotal crises linked to the economic growth. Beginning with agriculture ten thousand years ago, each crisis led to an impasse until human ingenuity devised a technical 'solution' to fix it. These solutions included the alphab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cobbing, Julian Raymond Dennis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [South Africa] : Mvusi Books, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Capitalism.
Crises > History > 21st century.
Economic history.
Crises (Sciences sociales) > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Histoire économique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Crises.
Society and culture: general.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Growth and the human crisis
  • Our relationship with everything else
  • Human emerge within the gaian system
  • Agriculture
  • Why Europe?
  • Imperialism
  • Steam engines and city pox
  • Electricity and oil
  • Capitalism
  • War, 1914-45
  • Stalin and the terror
  • Auschwitz
  • Hiroshima
  • The golden age and its breakdown
  • The corporate (neoliberal) world order
  • The post-Gutenberg age
  • Population growth and environmental destruction
  • Heating the planet with oil
  • The current mass extinction
  • Genocides
  • The nuclear shadow
  • Financial crises
  • The gathering storm
  • Will our species survive?