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First published

London : Pluto Press, 2010

viii, 299 stran : ilustrace, mapy ; 23 cm

ISBN 978-0-7453-3053-2 (brožováno)

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Preface and Acknowledgements vii // Introduction 1 // Between Danger and Hope 1 // The Invisible Crisis 2 // The Failure of Civil Society 3 // The Struggle for Civilization 4 // The Core Argument 6 // Structure of Argument 8 // 1. Climate Catastrophe A Debate Resolved? Current Climate Change is Unequivocally 16 // Anthropogenic 17 // National Security Alert 33 // Rapid Climate Change 36 // Abrupt Change Through "Tipping Points" 40 // A Systemic Failure 51 // 2. Energy Scarcity 61 // Energy and Society 61 // Quick Alternatives to Conventional Oil? 79 // 3. Food Insecurity 94 // The Global Food Empire 94 // Peak Food? 98 // 4. Economic Instability 107 // The Problem of "Growth" 108 // Global Financial Crisis 121 // 5. International Terrorism 138 // Hydrocarbon Over-Dependence 138 // Al-Qaeda and Post-Cold War Western Covert Operations The "Redirection": Al-Qaeda Sponsorship in the Middle East 142 // After 2003 152 // 6. The Militarization Tendency Empire // Defending the Homeland // 7. Diagnosis - Interrogating the Global Political Economy 200 // The Continuum of Crisis, and Civilizations as Complex // Adaptive Systems 200 // Structural and Socio-Systemic Dynamics of Capitalism 209 // Neoliberal Computational Finance Capitalism 227 // The Political-Legal Regulation of the Global Imperial System 236 // Capitalism"s Philosophical Base 239 // 8. Prognosis - The Post-Carbon Revolution and the Renewal of Civilization 248 // Afterword 258 // Notes and References Index