Evolving Knowledge, Human Sustainability, and the Rise of Climate Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Evolving Knowledge, Human Sustainability, and the Rise of Climate Change highlights the monumental significance the present era is contributes to our species’ evolution, because human decisions increasingly have proved to bear weighty consequences for all living beings on planet Earth, not just the human beings. The phenomenon of climate change is becoming a challenge that simultaneously constitutes an unprecedented opportunity for humanity to design, create, and manage its own sustainable evolutionary path. This book contends, however, that when not formally or systemically guided, our innate human curiosity merges with our innate human ingenuity to accelerate the rate of our cultural evolution. Having evolved a sufficiency of useful knowledge, the planning to engage successfully in many thriving activities is currently needed by the effort to control climate change. The book further contends that because we human beings have achieved the capacity to understand and alter our present situation, we also have evolved the impetus to begin self-consciously managing worldwide human evolution, rather than leaving it to an unknown force that may evolve otherwise, meaning a force that may choose to pursue other among the many increasingly diverse human interests. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-12
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEnvironment and Society
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666978292

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Chapter One: Time for a Change Chapter Two: Welcome to Our World Chapter Three: Who Are We?Chapter Four: How We Got This Far Chapter Five: Complications of Cultural Evolution Chapter Six: Earth Evolved by Human Beings Chapter Seven: Human Motivation & Morality Chapter Eight: Human Potential Strategically Applied Chapter Nine: A Sustainable & Rewarding Quality of Life

In his comprehensive examination of the evolution of humanity, Charles B. Osburn has written a timely treatise alerting us that humanity has become overly focused on objectivity, creating an imbalance that diminishes our natural subjectivity and strains our relationship with the planet. Elegantly written with conviction and clarity, this book renders the present moment as a rare opportunity: we now have the knowledge to address global challenges and shape a more sustainable future. This is intellectually serious and ethically ambitious writing with a strong philosophical foundation and a timely ecological message. Its greatest strengths are its moral urgency and framing humanity’s crisis as an evolutionary turning point rather than merely a political or economic problem.