Reseña: Catton, W.R., Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, Illini Books edition, 1982

Catton, W.R., Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, Illini Books edition, 1982
(ISBN: 0-252-00818-9)

I. The unfathomed predicament of mankind
1. Our need for a new perspective. (3)
II. Eventually had already come yesterday
2.The tragic story of human success (17)
3.Dependence on phantom carryng capacity (36)
4.Watershed year: modes of adaptation (58)
III. Siege and the avoidance of truth
5.The end of exuberance (77)
IV. Toward ecological understanding
6.The processes taht matter (95)
7.Succession and restoration (115)
8.Ecological causes of unwelcome change (126)
9.Nature ad the nature of man (143)
10.Industrialization: prelude to collapse (157)
V. Ressistence and change
11.Faith versus fact (183)
12.Life under pressure (199)
VI. Living with the new reality
13.Backing into future (213)
14.Turning around (227)
15.Facing the future wisely (244)
Glossary (271)
Indexes (283)