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    Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!: Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order
    Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!: Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order
    Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!: Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order
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    Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!: Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order

    By Peter Pogany

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    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. Specifically, he postulates that a steady state was interrupted by World War I, with a chaotic transition following World War II, which has led us to the current world order.

    His theory predicts that global society is drifting toward a new form of self-organization that will recognize limits to demographic-economic expansion but only after we go through a new chaotic transition that will start sometime between now and the 2030s.

    Havoc, They Name is Twenty-First Century, delivers sobering thoughts on where the world is headed, but it also offers a glimpse of a bright future that we can embrace once we get through the darkness to come.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 16, 2015
    ISBN9781491738993
    Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!: Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order
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    Peter Pogany

    Peter Pogany, a trained economist, applied his skills in numerous roles for more than fifty years. His international experience includes research positions in Europe and Africa, and a teaching assignment in Asia. He died in 2014 and this book is his final legacy of deeply innovative thought.

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