The Upside of Down,9781597260640

The Upside of Down

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ISBN13: 9781597260640
ISBN10: 1597260649
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-01
Publisher(s): Island Pr
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Summary

In this groundbreaking exploration of crisis and revival, Thomas Homer-Dixon argues that the modern world has become increasingly vulnerable to breakdown-whether from terrorist attacks, environmental disasters, energy scarcity, or the widening gap between rich and poor. But it is also ripe for renewal. The Upside of Down shows how collapse can catalyze the renewal of our societies and our lives. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas Homer-Dixon is author of Environment, Scarcity, and Violence and The Ingenuity Gap, winner of Canada's prestigious Governor-General's Award of Non-Fiction

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE Firestorm 1(8)
San Francisco, Thursday, April 19, 1906
Rome, Tuesday, May 2003
The White Wall
ONE Tectonic Stresses 9(22)
Multipliers
Synchronous Failure
Beyond Management
From Crash to Creativity
Thresholds
The Prospective Mind
TWO A Keystone in Time 31(26)
The Thermodynamics of Empire
A Stone's Journey
Colosseum Calories
Energy Return on Investment
The Exigencies of Energy
THREE We Are like Running Water 57(20)
Demographic Momentum
No Land Is an Island
Growth's Consequences
Megacities
FOUR So Long, Cheap Slaves 77(24)
From Geopolitics to Geoscarcity
Oil's Peak
Where Are the Giants?
"The World Economy Has No Plan B"
FIVE Earthquake 101(28)
Negative Synergy
Overload
Connectivity and Speed
A Clausewitz of Complexity
Boundary Jumping
SIX Flesh of the Land 129(24)
Stages of Denial
Beyond the Horizon
Squeezed in a Vise
The Anthropocene
Hollow Societies
SEVEN Closing the Windows 153(24)
Kilimanjaro's Retreat
Consensus
Confidence Game
Back Casting
Momentum and Feedback
Walking toward a Cliff
Frayed Networks
EIGHT No Equilibrium 177(30)
Heading for the Exits
Income Gap
The Dirty Little Secret of Development Economics
Curious Fixation
Cultivating Discontent
The Growth Imperative
Clouded Hope
NINE Cycles within Cycles 207(28)
Licensing Denial
Why Don't We Face Reality?
Diminishing Returns
Panarchy
Overextending the Growth Phase
TEN Disintegration 235(30)
Checkerboard Landscape
Energy Subsidy
Ruthless Extraction
Holland Times Ten
Motivation, Opportunity, and Framing
Power Shift
A Shattered Sphere
ELEVEN Catagenesis 265(32)
A Watch List
Moments of Contingency
Resilience
Open Source
TWELVE Baalbek: The Last Rock 297(14)
Notes 311(94)
Illustration Credits 405(8)
Acknowledgments 413(4)
Index 417

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