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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() PowerLimits and Prospects for Human Survival |
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and … | Richard Heinberg | 416 | 2021 | View |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Power |
In the introduction, Heinberg suggests that while there is not a single solution to the converging crises of the 21st century, there is a single causative agent. That causative agent is … | Richard Heinberg | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Introduction–Why BotherFrom: The Farmer's Office |
Understand What Makes You Money (and Why) – Invest in Your Business – Plan for Growth – Plan for Slow Periods – Avoid Out-of-Control Debt – Weather Covid-like Pivots … | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add | |
From ![]() NEW! Part One Indigenous Commons, Capital Cravings, and the Coming of Colonialism, 1500–1790 and The Dish with One SpoonFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This section discusses first contact between the Europeans and the Indigenous inhabitants and divergent understandings of property rights and land tenure and collectivism and individualism. | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Power in NatureFrom Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power |
In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
From ![]() Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada’s “Consent-by-Default” IndustryPart One: Dispossession at Home |
In Chapter 3, author Aedan Alderson reflects on the role of dispossession in Canada’s land use planning industry by drawing on case studies that highlight the techniques, processes, and … | Aedan Alderson | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
From ![]() Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
From ![]() Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
From ![]() OverpoweredThe Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into From: Power |
In this chapter the author focuses primarily on power dilemmas that are less frequently discussed, but that may be even more important for us to understand, especially in the 21st century. These … | Richard Heinberg | 60 | 2021 | $6.00 Add |
From ![]() Optimum PowerSustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power |
This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … | Richard Heinberg | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
From ![]() "If They Don’t Farm It, They Should Not Own It"Land Investments and the Divisions of Farming From: Divided |
This essay examines patterns of land ownership in Saskatchewan, where outside investors are buying up more and more farmland. | Birgit Müller | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Money, Land, and Law in a Nineteenth-Century Capitalist DominionFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter addresses the growth of taxation in Canada in the late nineteenth century to finance the expanding role of the capitalist state infrastructure of roads and bridges and institutions … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |