Entropy : into the greenhouse world / Jeremy Rifkin, with Ted Howard ; afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Author
- Rifkin, Jeremy
- Published
- New York : Bantam Books, c1989.
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Physical Description
- xi, 354 p. ; 21 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Howard, Ted
- Contents
- WORLD VIEWS: Into the greenhouse world -- Deluge and drought -- World views -- The Greeks and the five ages of history: cycles and decay -- The Christian world view -- Toward the modern world view -- The machine age -- The architects of the mechanical world view -- THE ENTROPY LAW: The entropy law -- Cosmology and the second law -- Time, metaphysics, and entropy -- Life and the second law -- Exosomatic instruments and energy -- ENTROPY A NEW HISTORICAL FRAME: History and entropy watersheds -- The last great energy watershed -- Technology -- External costs -- Diminishing returns of technology -- Institutional development -- Specialization -- World views and energy environments -- NONRENEWABLE ENERGY AND THE APPROACHING ENTROPY WATERSHED: The energy crisis -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear fusion -- Minerals -- ENTROPY AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGE: Economics -- Agriculture -- Transportation -- Urbanization -- The military -- Education -- The environment -- Health -- ENTROPY A NEW WORLD VIEW: The greenhouse transition -- A new infrastructure for the solar age -- Third world development -- Domestic redistribution of wealth -- Values and institutions in an entropic society -- Reformulating science -- Reformulating education -- A second Christian reformation -- Facing the entropy crisis -- From despair to hope.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0553347179
9780553347173 - Note
- "Bantam new age books"--Series t.p.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354).
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