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The Economic Superorganism
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Author : Carey W. King
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-07
The Economic Superorganism written by Carey W. King and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes. Since the oil crises of the 1970s, pundits have debated the validity of this sequence, but most economists and politicians still ignore it. Thus, they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues as income inequality, growth, debt, and climate change. To understand why, Carey King explores the scientific and rhetorical basis of the competing narratives both within and between energy technology and economics. Energy and economic discourse seems to mirror Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion: For every narrative there is an equal and opposite counter-narrative. The competing energy narratives pit "drill, baby, drill!" against renewable technologies such as wind and solar. Both claim to provide secure, reliable, clean, and affordable energy to support economic growth with the most benefit to society, but how? To answer this question, we need to understand the competing economic narratives, techno-optimism and techno-realism. Techno-optimism claims that innovation overcomes any physical resource constraints and enables the social outcomes and economic growth we desire. Techno-realism, in contrast, states that no matter what energy technologies we use, feedbacks from physical growth on a finite planet constrain economic growth and create an uneven distribution of social impacts. In The Economic Superorganism, you will discover stories, data, science, and philosophy to guide you through the arguments from competing narratives on energy, growth, and policy. You will be able to distinguish the technically possible from the socially viable, and understand how our future depends on this distinction.
The Economic Organism
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Author : Gerald Barradas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Economic Organism written by Gerald Barradas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Economics categories.
Metaman The Merging Of Humans And Machines Into A Global Superorganism
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Author : Gregory Stock
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release Date : 1993
Metaman The Merging Of Humans And Machines Into A Global Superorganism written by Gregory Stock and has been published by Doubleday Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Bees As Superorganisms
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Author : Robin Moritz
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Bees As Superorganisms written by Robin Moritz and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
The honeybee (Apis melli/era L. ) is one of the better studied organisms on this planet. There are plenty of books on the biology of the honeybee for all, the scientist, the beekeeper, and the layman. In view of this flood of publications one is tempted to ask: why does it require another one? The answer is simple: a new one is not required and we do not intend to present a new book on "the honeybee". This would really just add some more inches to the already overloaded bookshelf without sub stantial new information. Instead, we intend to present a book on the honeybee colony. This of course immediately releases the next question: so what is the difference? Although the difference may look insignificant at first glance, we try to guide the reader with a fundamentally different approach through the biology of honeybees and eusocial insect societies in general. The biology of individual colony members is only addressed when it is necessary to explain colonial mechanisms, and the colony as a whole, as a biological unit, which is the main focus of this treatise. Both of us felt that all current textbooks on bee biology put too much emphasis on the individual worker, queen or drone in the colony. Often it is com pletely neglected that the colony is a very significant (if not the most significant) biological structure in bee biology.
Superorganism
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Author : Peter A. Corning
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Superorganism written by Peter A. Corning and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with Psychology categories.
As evidence of our global survival crisis continues to mount, the expression 'too little, too late' comes to mind. We all live in an interdependent world which has an increasingly shared fate. We are participants in an emerging global 'superorganism' that is dependent on close cooperation. Indeed, positive synergy (cooperative effects) has been the key to our evolutionary success as a species. However, our ultimate fate is now in jeopardy. Going forward, we must either create a more effective global society (with collective self-governance) or our species will very likely be convulsed by mass starvation, waves of desperate migrants, and lethal social conflict. The greatest threat we may face is each other, and a regression into tribalism and violent conflict. This Element has a more hopeful prescription for a new global social contract. It is based on the many examples of superorganisms – socially organized species – in the natural world, and in evolution.
More Heat Than Life The Tangled Roots Of Ecology Energy And Economics
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Author : Jeremy Walker
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-14
More Heat Than Life The Tangled Roots Of Ecology Energy And Economics written by Jeremy Walker and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Business & Economics categories.
This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.
Ultrasocial
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Author : John M. Gowdy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-26
Ultrasocial written by John M. Gowdy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Society is an ultrasocial superorganism whose requirements take precedence over individuals. What does this mean for humanity's future?