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After Progress : Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age

2015

Progress is not just a goal in the West-it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don't actually matter-after all, our lab-coated high priests will surely bring forth yet another miracle to save us all.

Unfortunately, progress as we've known it has been entirely dependent on the breakneck exploitation of half a billion years of stored sunlight in the form of fossil fuels. As the age of this cheap, abundant energy draws to a close, progress is grinding to a halt. Unforgiving planetary limits are teaching us that our blind faith in endless exponential growth is a dangerous myth.

After Progress addresses this looming paradigm shift, exploring the shape of history from a perspective on the far side of the coming crisis. Greer's startling examination of the role our belief systems play in the evolution of our collective consciousness is required reading for anyone concerned about making sense of the future at a time when we must seek new sources of meaning, value, and hope for the era ahead.

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Authors

John Michael Greer

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index
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CaOOCEL
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rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
303.44
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781550925869 1550925865
LCCN
HM891
LCCN Item number
G74 2015eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaBNVSL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (viii, 263 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)thg00930635 (OCoLC)913977595 (CaOOCEL)467316
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Title proper/short title
Reason and religion at the end of the industrial age
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CaBNVSL

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