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, mankind's common home.
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
This is an amazing, almost mind-boggling book. The author takes a look at the true whole, i.e., the development of the human enterprise since its very beginning. This enterprise is evidently a possibility under the boundary conditions of cosmological dynamics and natural evolution, but evidently also a highly improbable one.
It is all but a miracle that the Earth system in its present form exists and happens to support a technical civilization. Will this civilization last long, will it transform itself into something even more exceptional, or will it perish in disgrace?
Santos dares to address these grandest of all questions, equipped with a unique transdisciplinary wisdom drawing on physics, cybernetics, geology, biology, economics, anthropology, history, and philosophy. And he dares to dive into the deepest abysses of thinking, where categorial monsters like time and progress lurk. Thereby, he takes us on fascinating journey, during which we perceive and grasp things we have never seen and understood before. One of the best essays I have ever read.
John Schellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change
| ISBN: | 9783030553326 |
| Publication date: | 19th September 2020 |
| Author: | Filipe Duarte Santos |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 703 pages |
| Series: | The Frontiers Collection |
| Genres: |
Philosophy Philosophy of mind Central / national / federal government policies Sociology Social, group or collective psychology The environment Technology: general issues |
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.
Time, Progress, Growth and Technology features in the following genres: Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Central / national / federal government policies, Sociology, Social, group or collective psychology, The environment, Technology: general issues
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Time, Progress, Growth and Technology was written by Filipe Duarte Santos and published by Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Time, Progress, Growth and Technology has 703 pages
Yes it is part of The Frontiers Collection series
£29.69, reduced from £32.99. Not Available.