| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Series |
CBC Massey Lecture |
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CBC Massey Lecture
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| Summary |
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?. In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780887848438 |
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0887848435 |
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