After Progress: Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age
- ISBN-10
- 1550925865
- ISBN-13
- 9781550925869
- Series
- After Progress
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-01
- Publisher
- New Society Publisher
- Author
- John Michael Greer
Description
The acclaimed climate futurist examines our unquestioning faith in progress, and its limits in the face of peak oil and climate change. Since the Industrial Age began, scientific and technological progress has been nothing short of miraculous. As a result, progress itself has become the new religion of the West. Our faith in it is so complete that many of us ignore the perils of peak oil and climate change, believing that our lab-coated high priests will surely bring forth yet another miracle to save us all. Unfortunately, progress as we've known it has been entirely dependent on the breakneck exploitation of half a billion years of stored sunlight in the form of fossil fuels. As the age of this cheap, abundant energy draws to a close, progress is grinding to a halt. Unforgiving planetary limits are teaching us that our blind faith in endless exponential growth is a dangerous myth. After Progress addresses this looming paradigm shift, exploring the shape of history from a perspective on the far side of the coming crisis. With a startling examination of the role our belief systems play in our collective fate, John Michael Greer makes a persuasive argument for seeking new sources of meaning, value, and hope for the era ahead.
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- 2002-07
- 432 pages
- Paperback
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- 2001-02-08
- 456 pages
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