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"Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise - a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life. Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What is our obligation to the future? What is the transformative power of moral resolve? How can clear thinking stand against the lies and illogic that batter the chances for positive change? What are useful answers to the recurring questions of a storm-threatened time - What can anyone do? Is there any hope? And always this: What stories and ideas will lift people who deeply care, inspiring them to move forward with clarity and moral courage? "--

16. Permanent Monitoring Panel reports. Mother and Child Permanent Monitoring Panel: manifesto / Nathalie Charpak -- Report by Permanent Monitoring Panel on Missile Proliferation and Defense / Andrei Piontkovsky -- Limits of Development Permanent Monitoring Panel report / Hiltmar Schubert -- World Federation of Scientists/Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security / Henning Wegener -- Meeting of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on defense against floods and unexpected meteorological events / Robert Clark -- Water; climate; ozone and greenhouse effects; and desertification / Robert Clark -- Pollution Permanent Monitoring Panel / Richard Ragaini -- Report of the Energy Permanent Monitoring Panel / Kai Siegbahn -- Minutes of Desertification Permanent Monitoring Panel / Andrew Warren -- 17. Brain and behaviour diseases workshop. Unravelling the mysteries of schizophrenia: advances from genetic studies / Anne S. Bassett ... [et al.] -- Genetics of substance dependence / C. Robert Cloninger -- Huntington disease and other CAG repeat disorders / P. Michael Conneally -- Dementia from brain vascular disease: the silent epidemic / Charles DeCarli -- Noncognitive symptoms of dementia: rigor and relevance / Marshal F. Folstein -- Can we find genes for common disorders? / Susan E. Folstein -- Neuropathology at the crossroads of neuropsychiatry and genetics: new insights into neuroserpin encephalopathy / Bernardino Ghetti ... [et al.] -- The genetics and epidemiology of multiple sclerosis / Jonathan L. Haines -- Alzheimer disease: genes and environment; the value of international studies / Hugh C. Hendrie ... [et al.] -- Genetics and the global health burden of mood disorders / Francis J. McMahon -- Violence and violent conflicts: views from affective neuroscience / Sergio Paradiso, Lauren Schrock -- The genetics of Alzheimer disease / Margaret A. Pericak-Vance -- Tau gene mutations in frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 / Maria Grazia Spillantini -- Psychiatric disorders as vectors for HIV and other behaviorally transmitted infectious epidemics / Glenn J. Treisman -- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy: current status / R.G. Will -- Neuropsychiatric aspects of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / R.G. Will, R.S.G. Knight, M.D. Spencer -- 18. Information Security Workshop. New forms of confrontation: cyber-terrorism and cyber-crime / Ahmad Kamal -- 19. Kangaroo Mother's Care Workshop. A tool for the follow-up of your Kangaroo Mother Care: baby from birth to one year of corrected age / Nathalie Charpak ... [et al.].

Post-Nature Writing / Blair Braverman -- Why Haiti? / Elizabeth Cooke -- Rebuild or Retreat : Is It Time to Give Up on Places Like the Rockaways? / Ben Goldfarb -- Winter Solstice / Lisa Hupp -- Urban Foraging / Amaris Ketcham -- To Love an Owl / Abby McBride -- But I'll Still Be Here / James Orbesen -- An Orange County Almanac : Adventures in Suburban Ecology / Jason M. Brown -- Other, Wise / Cameron Conaway -- Tamale Traditions : Cultivating an Understanding of Humans and Non-human Nature through Food / Amy Coplen -- Wilderness of Blackberries / Craig A. Maier -- My Present Is Not Your Tombstone : Love and Loss in Utah's Canyon Country / Lauren McCrady -- Sunset at Mile 16 / Alycia Parnell -- Birdhouse Treasures / William Thomas -- Erosion/Accretion / Amelia Urry -- Diseases of Affluence / Ben Cromwell -- The Lives of Plovers / Sierra Dickey -- Why I Wear Jordans in the Great Outdoors / CJ Goulding -- We Are the Fossil-Fuel Freedom Fighters / Bonnie Frye Hemphill -- The Wager for Rain / Megan Kimble -- Could Mopping Save the World? : How Day-to-Day Chores Can Bring Big Changes / Emily Schosid -- True to Our Nature / Danna Joy Staaf

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. THE NATURE OF POWER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Elements -- 3. Additional Considerations -- 4. The Variety of Operating Units -- 5. Power Domains and Levels -- PART TWO. ENERGETIC AND MENTALISTIC STRUCTURES -- 6. A Note on Structure, Mind and Matter, and Culture -- 7. The Energetic -- 8. The Mentalistic -- PART THREE. A MODEL OF THE EVOLUTION OF POWER -- 9. The Framework -- 10. Levels of Integration -- 11. Replicative Processes -- 12. Social Power and the Future -- Works Cited -- Index

An idealistic twenty-something environmentalist. A retired right-wing finance minister. All their lives, they've happily ignored each other. Until now. Anna Rose, environmental crusader since the age of fourteen and co-founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is on a mission. This is the story of her biggest challenge yet: a whirlwind journey around the world with conservative powerbroker and arch climate sceptic Nick Minchin. From a remote Hawaiian volcano to a cosmic ray laboratory in Geneva, Anna rolls out the biggest names in science to try and change Nick's mind.It's a journey to tell the story of what's happening to our climate—not just to one man, but to a nation divided on the biggest issue of our times. Nick and Anna challenge each other's views, provoking each other to confront closely held assumptions and question our responsibilities as citizens living in uncertain times.

"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen helps us imagine an alternative. We need, he says, a new normal, a new ecological order that is actually economical with resources, that embraces limits, that sees sustainable living not as a "lifestyle" but as a long-term connection to fresh, free-flowing water, fertile soil, and healthy food." "That economies must grow is a fundamental belief among economists, politicians, and journalists. But it is rampant material growth that has brought us to this precipice. Princen argues that it is time to build an economy that is grounded in the way natural systems work; that operates as if we have just the right amount of resources rather than endless frontiers. The goal would be to live well by living well within the capacities of those resources. Society's material foundations would be grounded in the biophysical, its practices based on satisfying work, self-reliance, and restraint rather than the purchasing of goods. Princen doesn't offer a quick fix - there's no list of easy ways to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abundance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then realizing, how to live within our biophysical means."--Jacket.

Earth system science -- Earth's geosphere, biosphere, and climate -- The evolution of the biosphere -- Technosphere impacts on the global biogeochemical cycles -- Technosphere impacts on the biosphere -- Scenarios of global environmental change -- Globalization and ecological modernization -- Global environmental governance -- Global monitoring -- Socio-ecological systems -- Key concepts for a new planetary paradigm -- Lexicon of the spheres.