TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Ronald
TI  - A short history of progress
T2  - CBC Massey lectures series
SN  - 0887847064 (alk. paper)
AV  - CB 69 W947s 2004
U1  - 909 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - House of Anansi Press
KW  - Progress
KW  - History
KW  - Progreso
KW  - Historia
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Historia de la civilización
KW  - Environmental degradation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index
N2  - 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
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