id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3sbdsqt4onavrgrcztto2a3sne Paul Sutton Alone in the Void: Getting Real about the Tenuous and Fragile Nature of Modern Civilization 2012.0 14 .pdf application/pdf 6675 505 62 minority paradigm of ecological economics posits a need to move toward a steady state argued that humanity better figure out how to live here on earth before we colonized space. regarding what collective choices are more likely to result in a better future for humanity. natural scientists, are increasingly recognizing that economic activity is here to stay; human activities the perspective of ecological economics bridle at the ideas of determinist thinking entering into policy surprisingly, the developed world uses more than four times as much energy per person to grow food. The food, energy, and environmental challenges that humanity is facing right now are regarded as the policy arena and prescribe economic growth as the solution to many world problems and encourage way economic development and human well-being are currently measured and monitored becomes crucial. future of civilization could result in a dark side of the earth in 10,000 years that looks very similar to ./cache/work_3sbdsqt4onavrgrcztto2a3sne.pdf ./txt/work_3sbdsqt4onavrgrcztto2a3sne.txt