Immoderate Greatness
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Immoderate Greatness by William Ophuls
*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as uniquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, and consumption. To avoid the common fate of all past civilizations will require a radical change in our ethos-to wit, the deliberate renunciation of greatness-lest we precipitate a dark age in which the arts and adornments of civilization are partially or completely lost.
William Ophuls is a former member of the U.S. Foreign Service and has taught political science at Northwestern University. He is the author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, which won the International Studies Association's Sprout Prize and the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award.
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ISBN 13 | 9781479243143 |
ISBN 10 | 1479243140 |
Title | Immoderate Greatness |
Author | William Ophuls |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Year published | 2012-12-28 |
Number of pages | 118 |
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