Fundamentals for the Anthropocene

Jack Pearce

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2017

Fundamentals for the Anthropocene

Jack Pearce

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110567311

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About this book

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.

Fundamentals of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Applications to Energy Flow and Civilization Sizes; Applications to Globalization

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Jack Pearce, President, OSI Management, Inc.; Formerly Partner, Pearce & Brand Law Firm

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1 The Visible Universe Starts With – Believe It or Not – Correlation Open Access Download PDF	4
2 Correlation=Differentiation=Order Open Access Download PDF	12
3 Some Basic Characteristics of this Ordering Process as Thus Conceived Open Access Download PDF	21
4 Hierarchy and Emergence Theories Open Access Download PDF	29
5 Causation Open Access Download PDF	39
6 The Arrow of Time Open Access Download PDF	43
7 Complexity Open Access Download PDF	47
8 Life Open Access Download PDF	53
9 Energy Open Access Download PDF	72
10 Globalization (Make It or Break It) Open Access Download PDF	92
11 Ethics, Thermodynamics, and The Anthropocene Open Access Download PDF	107
Appendix A: Note on Ontology and Epistemology Open Access Download PDF	119
Appendix B: A Selection of Human Social Conventions Which Favor Cooperative, and Thus Correlated, or Coordinated, Behavior Open Access Download PDF	121
Appendix C: Quantitative Wikis For Energy Supply and Distribution Modeling Open Access Download PDF	122
References Open Access Download PDF	124
Index Open Access Download PDF	127

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: physicists
Pages
- Main content: 135
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
Keywords: non equilibrium thermodynamics; life structure; anthropocene

eBook

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110567311

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110567304