Growth Growth Growth: Human History and the Planetary Catastrophe

Abstract

Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Growth and the Human Crisis -- 2. Our Relationship with Everything Else -- 3. Humans Emerge within the Gaian System -- 4. Agriculture -- 5. Why Europe? -- 6. Imperialism -- 7. Steam Engines and City Pox -- 8. Electricity and Oil -- 9. Capitalism -- 10. War, 1914-45 -- 11. Stalin and the Terror -- 12. Auschwitz -- 13. Hiroshima -- 14. The Golden Age and its Breakdown -- 15. The Corporate (Neoliberal) World Order -- 16. The Post-Gutenberg Age -- 17. Population Growth and Environmental Destruction -- 18. Heating the Planet with Oil -- 19. The Current Mass Extinction -- 20. Genocides -- 21. The Nuclear Shadow -- 22. Financial Crises -- 23. The Gathering Storm -- 24. Will our Species Survive? -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements -- Back cover.