The hidden connections : a science for sustainable living
Language: English Publication details: London Flamingo 2003 Description: xv, 272 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 0006551580Subject(s): Science--Philosophy | Globalization | BiotechnologySummary: 9780006551584Summary: Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: A fierce attack on globalism - and a manifesto for change - by one of the world's leading scientific writers. Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all life - from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy - is organised along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network. However, the new global economy differs in important aspects from the networks of life: whereas everything in a living network has a function, globalism ignores all that cannot give it an immediate profit, creating great armies of the excluded.Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A fierce attack on globalism - and a manifesto for change - by one of the world's leading scientific writers. Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all life - from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy - is organised along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network. However, the new global economy differs in important aspects from the networks of life: whereas everything in a living network has a function, globalism ignores all that cannot give it an immediate profit, creating great armies of the excluded.
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