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A short history of progress

The 20th centruy has seen a runaway growth in human consumption, which has placed a colossal load on the very elements of life. Ronald Wright explains how our current predicament is as old as civilisation - a 10,000 year experiment we have seldom controlled.

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  • "Fu huo jie dao de zui hou yi ke shu shi zen yang dao xia de"
  • "Fu huo jie dao de zui hou yi ke shu shi zen me dao xia de"
  • "復活節島的最後一棵樹是怎麼倒下的"
  • "復活節島的最後一棵樹是怎樣倒下的"

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  • "The 20th centruy has seen a runaway growth in human consumption, which has placed a colossal load on the very elements of life. Ronald Wright explains how our current predicament is as old as civilisation - a 10,000 year experiment we have seldom controlled."@en
  • "The 20th century has seen a runaway growth in human consumption, which has placed a colossal load on the very elemernts of life. Ronald Wright explains how our current predicament is as old as civilisation - a 10,000 year experiment we have seldom controlled."@en
  • "Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?. In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@es
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"

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  • "Brève histoire du progrès"
  • "Kratka istorija napretka"
  • "Shi kong de jin bu"
  • "La fin du progrès ?"
  • "La fin du progrès"
  • "Breve historia del progreso : hemos aprendido por fin las lecciones del pasado?"@es
  • "A short history of progress"@en
  • "A short history of progress"
  • "Eine kurze Geschichte des Fortschritts"
  • "失控的進步 : 復活節島的最後一棵樹是怎樣倒下的"
  • "失控的進步 : 復活節島的最後一棵樹是怎麼倒下的"
  • "Shi kong de jin bu : fu huo jie dao de zui hou yi ke shu shi zen me dao xia de"
  • "A Short History Of Progress"
  • "Kleine geschiedenis van de vooruitgang"
  • "失控的進步"
  • "İlerlemenin kısa tarihi"
  • "Shi kong de jin bu : Fu huo jie dao de zui hou yi ke shu shi zen yang dao xia de"
  • "Breve historia del progreso : ¿hemos aprendido por fin las lecciones del pasado?"
  • "Breve historia del progreso : ¿hemos aprendido por fin las lecciones del pasado?"@es
  • "Shi kong de jin bu : fu huo jie dao de zui hou yi ke shu shi zen yang dao xia de"
  • "A Short History of Progress"@en

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