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- Title The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future
- Author Tom Wessels
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition 2nd
- Pages 131
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vermont Books: Publishers, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date September 29, 2006
- ISBN 9781584654957 / 1584654953
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.84 x 0.63 in (20.62 x 14.83 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ecology, Environmental policy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006016895
- Dewey Decimal Code 577
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University of Vermont Press, 2006. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. 92x12x132. In this compelling and cogently argued book, Tom Wessels demonstrates how our current path toward progress, based on continual economic expansion and inefficient use of resources, runs absolutely contrary to three foundational scientific laws that govern all complex natural systems. It is a myth, he contends, that progress depends on a growing economy. Wessels explains his theory with his three Laws of Sustainability: (1) the law of limits to growth, (2) the second law of thermodynamics, which exposes the dangers of increased energy consumption, and (3) the law of self-organization, which results in the marvelous diversity of such highly evolved systems as the human body and complex ecosystems. These laws, scientifically proven to sustain life in its myriad forms, have been cast aside since the eighteenth century, first by western economists, political pragmatists, and governments attracted by the idea of unlimited growth, and…
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