Indra''s Net and the Midas Touch - Living Sustainably in a Connected World

Informationen zum Autor Leslie Paul Thiele is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution! The Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom! Neuroscience! and Narrative! and other books. Klappentext We live today in a global web of interdependence! connected technologically! economically! politically! and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies! it has become impossible fully to control--or foretell--the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. Wall Street¿s reckless investment in toxic assets recently produced massive defaults and a global economic recession. Our attachment to fossil energy is producing a climate default. The first law of human ecology--which declares that we can never do merely one thing--is a truth we ignore at our peril. In Indra¿s Net and the Midas Touch! Leslie Paul Thiele explores the impact of interdependence and unintended consequences on our pursuit of sustainability.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Paul Thiele, Leslie Paul (University of Florida) Thiele
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9780262016094
• ISBN: 978-0-262-01609-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht, Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), Politics / Current Events