A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization : And How to Save It.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- BETWEEN DANGER AND HOPE -- THE INVISIBLE CRISIS -- THE FAILURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVILIZATION -- THE CORE ARGUMENT -- STRUCTURE OF ARGUMENT -- 1. Climate Catastrophe -- A DEBATE RESOLVED? CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNEQUIVOCALLY ANTHROPOGENIC -- NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT -- RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE -- ABRUPT CHANGE THROUGH 'TIPPING POINTS' -- A SYSTEMIC FAILURE -- 2. Energy Scarcity -- ENERGY AND SOCIETY -- QUICK ALTERNATIVES TO CONVENTIONAL OIL? -- 3. Food Insecurity -- THE GLOBAL FOOD EMPIRE -- PEAK FOOD? -- 4. Economic Instability -- THE PROBLEM OF 'GROWTH' -- GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS -- 5. International Terrorism -- HYDROCARBON OVER-DEPENDENCE -- AL-QAEDA AND POST-COLD WAR WESTERN COVERT OPERATIONS -- THE 'REDIRECTION': AL-QAEDA SPONSORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER 2003 -- 6. The Militarization Tendency -- EMPIRE -- DEFENDING THE HOMELAND -- 7. Diagnosis - Interrogating the Global Political Economy -- THE CONTINUUM OF CRISIS, AND CIVILIZATIONS AS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS -- STRUCTURAL AND SOCIO-SYSTEMIC DYNAMICS OF CAPITALISM -- NEOLIBERAL COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE CAPITALISM -- THE POLITICAL-LEGAL REGULATION OF THE GLOBAL IMPERIAL SYSTEM -- CAPITALISM'S PHILOSOPHICAL BASE -- 8. Prognosis - The Post-Carbon Revolution and the Renewal of Civilization -- Afterword -- Notes and References -- Index.

Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected problems of a failing global system.

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