[PDF.13yh] The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future

The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future

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 | #787874 in Books |  Vermont |  2006-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .63 x5.84 x8.12l,.64 | File type: PDF | 180 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Compact and interesting|By Jonathan Hills|I wish more people would read this book. The writing is good, with helpful references at the end of each chapter. As an environmental scientist, Tom Wessels has a well-founded and healthy perspective on economics, politics, and the future. He says no more and no less than he needs to. Anyone looking for a more educated view of the curre| |"Wessels writes that people with a richness of life created through their connections with community, place and themselves have no need to compulsively consume the "frivolous accoutrements that we tend to think of as making us happy, but which really don't." W

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: the law of limits to growth, the second law of thermo...

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