Planet Aqua : Rethinking Our Home in the Universe (Hardcover)

Detailed Contents???????? vii

Acknowledgments???????? x

Introduction? ? ??

Part I The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization

1???????????? First There Was the Waters? ? ? ??
2???????????? The Earth Be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization? ? ? ??
3???????????? Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Firma and Planet Aqua? ? ??
4???????????? The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism? ? ? ? ? ?

Part II The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Eco-Region Became Day Zero on a Warming Earth and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life

5???????????? The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean? ? ? ? ??
6???????????? Location, Location, Location: The Eurasian Pangaea? ??

Part III We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything

7???????????? Freeing the Waters? ? ? ? ?
8???????????? The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society? ? ? ? ? ? ??
9???????????? Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We’ve Come from and Where We’re Heading? ? ? ? ? ? ??
10????????? Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
11????????? The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of Bioregional Governance? ? ? ? ?

Part IV Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth

12????????? Two Ways to Listen to the Waters? ? ? ? ? ?
13????????? Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse? ? ? ? ?

Notes? ?

Index? ? ?