Time, progress, growth and technology : how humans and the earth are responding / Filipe Duarte Santos.
2021
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Title
Time, progress, growth and technology : how humans and the earth are responding / Filipe Duarte Santos.
ISBN
9783030553340 (electronic bk.)
3030553345 (electronic bk.)
3030553329
9783030553326
3030553345 (electronic bk.)
3030553329
9783030553326
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-55334-0 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-55
10.1007/978-3-030-55
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GF71
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
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 21st century are presented and discussed. This is a thought provoking and timely book that addresses the main global socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the current and future generations, using science-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, mankinds common home. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Frontiers collection.
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Table of Contents
Time
Human Life and Immortality
The Initial Part of Homo Sapiens' Time
Modernity and the Acceleration of Time
The Triumph and Challenges Created by the Idea of Progress
Prosperity, Egoism, Voluntary Simplicity, Sustainability, and Expectations of Immortality
Anthropocene, Technosphere, Biosphere, and the Contemporary Utopias
Conclusions.
Human Life and Immortality
The Initial Part of Homo Sapiens' Time
Modernity and the Acceleration of Time
The Triumph and Challenges Created by the Idea of Progress
Prosperity, Egoism, Voluntary Simplicity, Sustainability, and Expectations of Immortality
Anthropocene, Technosphere, Biosphere, and the Contemporary Utopias
Conclusions.