William Ophuls
Auteur van Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
Werken van William Ophuls
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited: The Unraveling of the American Dream (1992) 31 exemplaren
Requiem for Modern Politics : The Tragedy of the Enlightenment and the Challenge of the New Millennium (1997) 13 exemplaren
Apologies to the Grandchldren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political… (2018) 5 exemplaren
Electrifying the Titanic: The Shipwreck of Industrial Civilisation (Bite-Sized Environment Books) 1 exemplaar
The politics of the sustainable society 1 exemplaar
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To avoid this fate, Ophuls says, a society must keep things simple. People must provide for their own needs, grow their own food, ideally make their own clothes and other goods. The runaway bureaucracy can thus be nipped in the bud. Such simplicity was pretty much the state of affairs for the first few decades of the American republic. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, things got very complex, the government grew by leaps and bounds, and... well, you know the rest.
I found Ophuls's exposition well done but at times dry and lacking in brio.… (meer)