Time, progress, growth and technology [electronic resource] : how humans and the earth are responding / Filipe Duarte Santos.
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 evolutio...
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| Language: | English |
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[2021]
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| Series: | 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.