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The Age of Low Tech
People often believe that we can overcome the profound environmental and climate crises we face by smart systems, green innovations and more recycling. However, the quest for complex technological solutions, which rely on increasingly exotic and scarce materials, makes this unlikely. A best-seller in France, this English language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on how we should be marshalling our resources to preserve the planet and secure our future. Bihouix skilfully goes against the grain to argue that ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and envisages a different approach to build a more resilient and sustainable society.
Oil, Power, and War
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces ...
The Limits to Growth Revisited
“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The Limits to Growth” are in great need of reappraisal. In The Limits to Growth Revisited, Ugo Bardi examines both the science and the polemics surrounding this work, and in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years. “The Limits ...
The Contamination of the Earth
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts--chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast "plastic continent" found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century.
The Hidden Face of Pope Francis
Why did Pope Francis canonize a priest responsible for the genocide of the Indians? Why does he wish to beatify the anti-Semitic French priest, Leon Dehon? What are the unmentionable reasons for his papal election? Pope Francis is presented as progressive and sensitive to the interests of the people, but underneath his smiles and his good words hides an authoritarian and dogmatic pope. This pope relies on very conservative movements such as Communion and Liberation or the Order of the Knights of Columbus, which are close to Opus Dei. The good Pope Francis is beginning to drop his mask when he declares that Europe is undergoing a new Arab invasion (sic), when he calls on "Catholics with a sen...
La faim du monde
Le XXe siècle a été celui de la voracité, le XXIe siècle sera celui de la faim. Ailleurs, bien sûr, en Afrique, mais aussi en Occident, ici même. Épuisement des énergies et minerais fossiles, dérèglement du climat, recul des terres arables, agonie des sols, raréfaction de l’eau douce, dépeuplement des océans, surpopulation, crise de l’agriculture : autant de facteurs porteurs de la faim et de ses conséquences dramatiques. Des décennies d’expansion désinvolte ne nous laissent désormais qu’un détroit infime à franchir pour éviter l’effondrement et nous permettre de sortir sans dommages irrémédiables de l’ère fossile. Hugues Stoeckel nous convainc, sans compl...
¿Por qué negociar con el ELN?
Después de décadas de conflicto armado, la paz se acerca con pasos agigantados. El proceso entre el Gobierno colombiano y las FARC es una realidad. La movilización de víctimas para impulsar la negociación es otro hecho indiscutible. Pero la paz requiere de procesos con todos los actores armados, incluyendo el Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), pues sin ellos sería una paz incompleta. Pero, ¿por qué negociar con el ELN? Es la pregunta que intentan responder los autores de este libro, desde diferentes sectores de la sociedad, como producto de un proceso colectivo de reflexión mediante foros y conversatorios, realizados durante los últimos dos años en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Los autores de este libro son tan variados como el país: investigadores sociales, profesores universitarios, líderes de organizaciones sociales, excombatientes ‘elenos’, campesinos de regiones donde ha actuado este grupo insurgente e integrantes del ELN, que hoy se encuentran en el centro penitenciario de Bellavista, en Medellín. El objetivo común es contribuir para que la paz se nutra con nuevos elementos de análisis y, ojalá, de nuevos actores en la mesa.
James Ensor
"James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony was published in conjunction with an exhibition titled Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor, organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 23, 2014, to January 25, 2015."
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The Death of French Culture
For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. However, of this past glory, all that is left today is navel-gazing, nostalgia and timidity. Covering art, fashion, philosophy, literature and cinema, Donald Morrison argues that French culture no longer has the kind of international standing it once did.
