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FUNDAMENTALS FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE - JACK PEARCE...

This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the
physical  tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand  and on
the other hand challenges facing human society as to the current revolution in energy sources 
national and international levels of political and economic organization  and humanity's
impacts upon the global ecosystem which have given rise to the depiction of a new era in
earthlife termed the anthropocene.The author's public career included responsibilities for
economic policy formulation and implementation at the United States Department of Justice  the
United States Agency for International Development  and a White House Office of Consumer
Affairs. This provided an elevated overview of many current economic and political issues.These
responsibilities stimulated a multi-decade exploration of leading academics' insights into the
relational structuring of the Universe  non-equilibrium thermodynamics  complexity in the
universe  and the structure of the life process. This book applies such fundamental insights to
the question whether humanity will succeed or fail in its ambitious but uncertain quest.

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