The Next World War : : Tribes, Cities, Nations, and Ecological Decline / / Roy Woodbridge.
Preoccupied 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 economic...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. The Enemy Is Ecological Decline
- 1. A Shift in the Angle of Vision
- 2. Provisioning Societies
- Part II. From Common Genes to the Global Economy
- 3. Round One: The Spread of Hunter-Gatherer Societies
- 4. Round Two: The Rise and Spread of Agricultural Societies
- 5. Round Three: Urbanization
- 6. Round Four: From City-States to Nations
- 7. Round Five: Reliance on Global Business Networks
- 8. The Organization and Potential of Round Five
- Part III. The Twenty-Five-Year Challenge to Growth and Social Stability
- 9. From Egalitarian Tribes to Global Inequity
- 10. Ecological Roadblocks to Growth and Poverty Reduction
- 11. The Catalysts of Calamity
- Part IV. The War to Provision the World
- 12. Our Common Enemy
- 13. Mobilizing Nations for War
- 14. Mobilizing the International Community
- 15. Round Six: The Age of Global Provisioning
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index