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US: CreateSpace Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Good. *Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspir es against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-dest ruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ulti mate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined wit h an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as u niquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, a nd consumption. To avoid the common fate of all past civilizations will req uire a radical change in our ethos-to wit, the deliberate renunciation of g reatness-lest we precipitate a dark age in which the arts and adornments of civilization are partially or completely lost.
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- Title Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
- Author William Ophuls
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- Pages 118
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Date 2012-12-28
- ISBN 9781479243143 / 1479243140
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.51 x 0.25 in (21.59 x 14.00 x 0.64 cm)
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