"Imperiul Final: Colapsul civilizatiei si semintele viitorului"

"The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future"
- Von Wm. H. Kötke

Capitole:

1: Pattern of the crisis
2: The end of civilization
3: Soil: The basis of life
4: The forest
5: The phantom agriculture
6: The dying oceans
7: Extinction of life by species increment
8: Population, poisons and resources
9: The cultural dynamics of empire
10: The psychology of empire
11: The history of modern colonialism
12: Colonialism in the modern world
13: The Principles of Life
14: Culture as Organism
15: The life of the tribe
16: The restoration of the life of the Earth
17: Permanent desert culture
18: Choosing reality
19: The natural history of the watershed of the San Francisco river
20: Planetary restoration - watershed restoration

"As colonists invaded North America, they simply burned huge tracts of forest in order to open it up to European-style agriculture. In 1756 John Adams spoke for the perception of the empire. 
Referring to the area of the continent now covered by cities, industrial wastelands, toxic waste dumps, poisoned air, poisoned waters and forests dying from acid rain, he observed:

"The whole continent was one continued dismal wilderness, the haunt of wolves and bears and more savage men. Now the forests are removed, the land covered with fields of corn, orchards bending with fruit and the magnificent habitations of rational and civilized people."


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"One glass factory in Massachusetts was fenced with barbed wire "to keep the young imps inside." The "young imps" were boys under 12 who carried loads of hot glass all night for a wage of 40 cents to $1.10 per night."