03393nam 2200649 a 450 991082960070332120240417021815.01-84964-791-71-84964-558-2(CKB)2670000000094502(EBL)3386451(SSID)ssj0000520322(PQKBManifestationID)11317761(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520322(PQKBWorkID)10508268(PQKB)10246198(MiAaPQ)EBC3386451(MiAaPQ)EBC5390714(Au-PeEL)EBL3386451(CaPaEBR)ebr10480051(OCoLC)730517857(EXLCZ)99267000000009450220101209d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it[electronic resource] /Nafeez Mosaddeq AhmedLondon ;New York Pluto Press ;New York Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan20101 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7453-3053-3 0-7453-3054-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Social changeCrisesCivilization, Modern21st centuryEast and WestCrisis managementHuman ecologySocial change.Crises.Civilization, ModernEast and West.Crisis management.Human ecology.363.09/051Ahmed Nafeez Mosaddeq559279MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829600703321A user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it4034634UNINA