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In Review: Still to Come

18 June, 2009 | Peter Robinson

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future, Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed., Toronto: Random House Canada, 2009, 224 pages. Reviewed by Peter Robinson.

Tags: politics, fossil fuels, energy, economy, climate change, book

Published in: The New Ecology 35.4

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18 June, 2009 | William E. Rees

LET'S FACE IT – the really inconvenient truth is that the age of unconstrained exuberance is over. Techno-industrial society has broken faith with Gaia and is now wrestling its twin demons of hubris and greed. It is illusory to think that anything can ever be the same. Nevertheless, not a single candidate in the recent Canadian and American federal election campaigns fully acknowledged the global ecological crisis or recognized the transformative possibilities inherent in today’s economic downturn.