Just to maintain our standard of living, we need to grow the worldwide economy at an unsustainable rate.As we seek to hit such lofty targets, were bound to deplete our resources and cause environmental crises on a scale that we have never seen before. Revolutions, terrorism, and wars will follow.Peter Pogany examines the problems we face and argues that human culture is governed by thermodynamic cycles of steady states interrupted by chaotic transitions. Specifical...

Short fiction of varying length on a great variety of subjects