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Preface | |
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Entering a New World | |
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A Massive Market Failure | |
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Environment and Civilization | |
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China: Why the Existing Economic Model Will Fail | |
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Mounting Stresses, Failing States | |
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A Civilizational Tipping Point | |
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Plan B-A Plan of Hope | |
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A Civilization in Trouble | |
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Deteriorating Oil and Food Security | |
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The Coming Decline of Oil | |
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The Oil Intensity of Food | |
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The Changing Food Prospect | |
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Cars and People Compete for Crops | |
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The World Beyond Peak Oil | |
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Food Insecurity and Failing States | |
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Rising Temperatures and Rising Seas | |
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Rising Temperature and Its Effects | |
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The Crop Yield Effect | |
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Reservoirs in the Sky | |
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Melting Ice and Rising Seas | |
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More-Destructive Storms | |
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Cutting Carbon 80 Percent by 2020 | |
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Emerging Water Shortages | |
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Water Tables Falling | |
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Rivers Running Dry | |
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Lakes Disappearing | |
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Farmers Losing to Cities | |
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Scarcity Crossing National Borders | |
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Water Scarcity Yields Political Stresses | |
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Natural Systems Under Stress | |
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Shrinking Forests: The Many Costs | |
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Losing Soil | |
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From Grassland to Desert | |
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Advancing Deserts | |
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Collapsing Fisheries | |
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Disappearing Plants and Animals | |
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Early Signs of Decline | |
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Our Socially Divided World | |
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Health Challenge Growing | |
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Throwaway Economy in Trouble | |
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Population and Resource Conflicts | |
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Environmental Refugees on the Rise | |
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Mounting Stresses, Failing States | |
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The Response-Plan B | |
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Eradicating Poverty, Stabilizing Population | |
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Universal Basic Education | |
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Stabilizing Population | |
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Better Health for All | |
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Curbing the HIV Epidemic | |
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Reducing Farm Subsidies and Debt | |
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A Poverty Eradication Budget | |
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Restoring the Earth | |
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Protecting and Restoring Forests | |
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Conserving and Rebuilding Soils | |
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Regenerating Fisheries | |
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Protecting Plant and Animal Diversity | |
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Planting Trees to Sequester Carbon | |
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The Earth Restoration Budget | |
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Feeding Eight Billion Well | |
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Rethinking Land Productivity | |
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Raising Water Productivity | |
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Producing Protein More Efficiently | |
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Moving Down the Food Chain | |
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Action on Many Fronts | |
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Designing Cities for People | |
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The Ecology of Cities | |
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Redesigning Urban Transport | |
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Reducing Urban Water Use | |
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Farming in the City | |
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Upgrading Squatter Settlements | |
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Cities for People | |
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Raising Energy Efficiency | |
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Banning the Bulb | |
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Energy-Efficient Appliances | |
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More-Efficient Buildings | |
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Restructuring the Transport System | |
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A New Materials Economy | |
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The Energy Savings Potential | |
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Turning to Renewable Energy | |
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Harnessing the Wind | |
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Wind-Powered Plug-in Hybrid Cars | |
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Solar Cells and Collectors | |
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Energy from the Earth | |
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Plant-Based Sources of Energy | |
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River, Tidal, and Wave Power | |
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The World Energy Economy of 2020 | |
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An Exciting New Option | |
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The Great Mobilization | |
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Shifting Taxes and Subsidies | |
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Summing Up Climate Stabilization Measures | |
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A Response to Failing States | |
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A Wartime Mobilization | |
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Mobilizing to Save Civilization | |
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What You and I Can Do | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Author | |