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050 4 $aCB151$b.O47 2012
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100 1 $aOphuls, William,$d1934-$eauthor.
245 10 $aImmoderate greatness :$bwhy civilizations fail /$cWilliam Ophuls.
264 1 $aNorth Charleston, South Carolina :$bCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,$c[2012]
264 4 $c©2012
300 $aii, 106 pages :$billustration ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 77-103) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : immoderate greatness -- Biophysical limits (Ecological exhaustion ; Exponential growth ; Expedited entropy ; Excessive complexity) -- Human error (Moral decay ; Practical failure) -- Conclusion : trampled down, barren, and bare.
520 $a"Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as uniquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, and consumption. To avoid the common fate of all past civilizations will require a radical change in our ethos-to wit, the deliberate renunciation of greatness-lest we precipitate a dark age in which the arts and adornments of civilization are partially or completely lost"-- Publisher.
650 0 $aRegression (Civilization)
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