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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Anthropological Perspectives on Contemporary Human Problems | |
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| Nature and Scope of the Problems | |
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| World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, 1992 | |
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| The UN Millennium Goals | |
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| Crisis Awareness and Response | |
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| The Significance of Culture Scale | |
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| The Uniqueness of Tribal Societies and Cultures | |
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| The "Original Affluent Society" | |
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| Understanding Commercial Societies and Cultures | |
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| Scale, Adaptation, and the Environmental Crisis | |
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| Cultural Transmission and Maladaptation | |
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| Scale and Cultural Evolution | |
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| Cultural Evolution and Adaptation | |
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| Nature and Scope of the Environmental Crisis | |
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| Biodiversity and the Death of the Tropical Rain Forests | |
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| Ecocide Soviet Style | |
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| Environmental Crisis and Cultural Change | |
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| Beyond "The Limits to Growth" | |
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| Environmental Commissions: Global 2000 and Our Common Future | |
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| Roots of the Environmental Crisis | |
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| Capitalism and Ideological Roots | |
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| Unregulated Self-Interest and the Tragedy of the Commons | |
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| Land Degradation in the Mediterranean Region | |
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| Extinctions and Biodiversity: Human Nature or Culture Scale Crisis? | |
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| Tribal and Small-Scale Domestic Economies | |
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| Wealth in Tribal and Commercial Worlds | |
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| Socio-Cultural Scale and the Environment | |
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| Ecological Footprints | |
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| Natural Resources and the Culture of Consumption | |
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| Energy and Culture: Basic Considerations | |
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| Capitalism and the Culture of Consumption | |
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| The History of Capitalism | |
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| The European Origins of Capitalism | |
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| The Culture of Over-Consumption | |
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| Resource Consumption in America | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| America's Forests as Resources | |
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| The Economics of Resource Depletion | |
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| Sustainable Development for the Common Good | |
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| The Consumption Culture's Environmental Cost: Western Coal | |
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| Elite Decision Makers and the Consumption Culture | |
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| Malnutrition and the Evolution of Food Systems | |
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| The Malthusian Dilemma | |
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| The Evolution of Food Systems | |
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| Foraging and Subsistence Security | |
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| The Shift to Farms and Gardens | |
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| The Domestic Mode of Food Production | |
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| Technological Advances in Food Production | |
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| Politically Directed Food Systems | |
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| The Commercialization of Grain: England 1500-1700 | |
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| Famine in the Modern World | |
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| Global Malnutrition | |
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| The Persistence of Food Insecurity | |
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| Food Over-Consumption | |
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| The Political Economy of Hunger: Bangladesh | |
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| Commercial Factory Food Systems | |
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| Factory Food Production | |
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| Factory Potatoes versus Swidden Sweet Potatoes | |
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| The Commercialization of the American Food System, 1850-1890 | |
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| Social Costs of the Food Production System | |
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| Energy Costs of the Distribution System | |
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| Food Marketing | |
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| Food Quality and Market Scale | |
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| Factory-Processed Potato Chips versus Manioc Cakes | |
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| Fishing, Global Trade, and "Ghost Acres" | |
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| The Limits of Food Production | |
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| The Population Problem | |
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| Maximum Global Population Estimates | |
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| Great Waves of Population Growth | |
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| Population Pressure, Carrying Capacity, and Optimum Population | |
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| Population Control among Foragers | |
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| Population Equilibrium in Aboriginal Australia | |
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| The Neolithic Population Explosion | |
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| Population Control among Tribal Village Farmers | |
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| Island Population Problems | |
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| The Case of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) "Collapse" | |
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| State Intervention and Population Control Mechanisms | |
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| Policy Implications | |
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| Poverty and Conflict | |
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| Violence and Insecurity in America | |
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| Social Order in the Tribal World | |
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| The Importance of Social Equality | |
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| Conflict and Conflict Resolution | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Internal Order in Politically Centralized Societies | |
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| Cross-Cultural Perspectives on War | |
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| The Scale of War and Violence in the Imperial and Commercial Worlds | |
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| The Fiscal-Military State and Military-Industrial Complexes | |
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| Deadly Arsenals: The Nuclear Weapons Threat | |
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| Failing States and Social Disorder | |
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| Roots of the Security Crisis: Culture, Overpopulation, or Inequality? | |
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| The Financialization Process and the Debt Crisis | |
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| Export Sugar, Starvation, and Infant Mortality in Brazil | |
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| State Terrorism and Investment Risk in Guatemala | |
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| Opulence and Deindustrialization in America | |
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| The Future | |
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| The Dilemma of Scale | |
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| Imagining the Global Future | |
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| IPCC SRES Scenarios | |
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| American Intelligence Community Futures | |
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| Shell Oil's Perspective on the Future | |
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| Sustainable Global Futures | |
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| TERRA-2000 and Information Society | |
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| UN GEO-3 Global Futures | |
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| The Great Transition Initiative | |
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| Transforming the Corporation | |
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| The Mondragon Cooperatives | |
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| Bhutan's Middle Path | |
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| Toward a Sustainable Planetary Society | |
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| Scaling Down: The Small Nations Alternative | |
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| The United States, Happy Planets, and Billionaires | |
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| Transforming America | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |