New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution

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ISHK, 2000 - 302 páginas
There is no longer sufficient time to rely on the normal pace of cultural evolution to deal with today's dilemmas... Human beings have always been the most adaptable creatures on the planet, and they should be able to chart a new course for themselves. Some of that charting is already being done. The old mind today is being challenged and changed by many scattered efforts. Can we bring these efforts together to produce a large-scale program for a rapid "change of mind"? We know what the problem is. The "solution" is not simple--to generate the social and political will to move a program of conscious evolution to the top of the human agenda.

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Chapter I THE THREAT WITHIN THE TRIUMPH
1
Section One THE WORLD THAT MADE US AND THE WORLD WE MADE
15
Chapter 2 THE WORLD THAT MADE US
17
Chapter 3 THE WORLD WE MADE
40
Section Two THE MATCHED AND THE MISMATCHED MIND
67
Chapter 4 CARICATURES OF REALITY
69
Chapter 5 WHERE DEFAULTS HARM
94
Chapter 6 OUTGROWING THE TRUTH FAIRY
119
Section Three NEW WORLD NEW MIND
187
Chapter 8 THE BEGINNINGS OF REAL CHANGE
189
Chapter 9 A CURRICULUM ABOUT HUMANITY
197
Chapter 10 CHANGING THE WORLD AROUND US
234
Appendix NOTES AND SOURCES
267
Index
287
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
302
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Chapter 7 MANAGING A WORLD LONG GONE
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Paul Ehrlich, founder and first president of the Zero Population Growth organization, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1955 and 1957, respectively. He became a member of the faculty at Stanford University in 1959 and was named Bing Professor of Population Studies in 1976. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and in 1990 he was awarded Sweden's Crafoord Prize, created by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to honor researchers in those disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prize. An expert in population biology, ecology, evolution, and behavior, Ehrlich has published more than 600 articles and scientific papers. He is perhaps best known for his environmental classic The Population Bomb (1968). Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne began working together shortly after their marriage in 1954. Anne Ehrlich received her B.S. in biology from the University of Kansas. As senior research associate in biology and associate director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, she has lectured widely and written on various environmental issues, including the environmental consequences of nuclear war. Together, the Ehrlichs have written six books and dozens of magazine articles.

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