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List of Figures and Tables | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Anthro pological 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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UN Millennium Goals | |
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Crisis Awareness and Response | |
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Significance of Culture Scale | |
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Uniqueness of Tribal Societies and Cultures | |
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"Original Affluent Society" | |
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Elite-Directed Growth: The Human Problem | |
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Distribution of Wealth and Power | |
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The World's Elite-Directors: View from the Top | |
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Elite-Direction and the Global Media: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation | |
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Too Big and Failing: Elite-Direction and the Global Financial Crisis | |
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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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Planetary Boundaries: Beyond the Earth's Limits in the Anthropocene | |
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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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Biological Potential and Cultural Demand in the Pacific Northwest | |
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Sociocultural Scale and the Environment | |
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Sociological 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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Elite-Directors of the Energy Sector: The Power and Influence of Big Oil | |
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Capitalism and the Culture of Consumption | |
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History of Capitalism | |
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European Origins of Capitalism | |
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Culture of Overconsumption | |
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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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Economics of Resource Depletion | |
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Sustainable Development and the Steady-State Economy | |
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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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Malthusian Dilemma | |
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Evolution of Food Systems | |
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Foraging and Subsistence Security | |
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Shift to Farms and Gardens | |
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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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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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Persistence of Food Insecurity | |
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Global Food Price Crisis of 2007-2008: Hunger and Land Grabs | |
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Food Overconsumption | |
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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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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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Limits of Food Production | |
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Food Chain Clusters: ABCD Four and the Great Turkey Recall | |
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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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Neolithic Population Explosion | |
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Population Control among Tribal Village Farmers | |
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Island Population Problems | |
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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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Importance of Social Equality | |
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Conflict and Conflict Resolution | |
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Leadership | |
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Internal Order in Political Centralized Societies | |
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on War | |
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Scale of War and Violence in the Imperial and Commercial Worlds | |
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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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Financialization Process and the Debt Crisis | |
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Export Sugar, Starvation, and Infant Morality 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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Los Angeles's Informal Economy: The Costs of American Poverty and Homelessness | |
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The Future | |
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Dilemma of Scale | |
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Imagining the Global Future | |
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios | |
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American Intelligence Community Futures | |
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Global Trends 2025: An American View of a Transformed World | |
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Shell Oil's Perspective on the Future | |
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Shell Oil's 2050 Scenario: Emissions-Trading Blueprints | |
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Zero Carbon Britain 2030 | |
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Bolivia: A Plurinational Communitary State Solving Human Problems | |
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Sustainable Global Futures | |
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TERRA-2000 and Information Society | |
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UN Global Environment Outlook 3 Global Futures | |
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The Great Transition Initiative | |
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Transforming the Corporation | |
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Mondrag�n 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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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |