ED AYRES is the former editor of World Watchmagazine, one of the first periodicals to focuson the emerging challenges of environmentaldegradation and destabilized climate.

"This book addresses an extremely important question-what can be done at the personal level to prepare for the decline phrase of our industrial/high energy-intensive society." -Dennis Meadows, co-author, The Limits to Growth

• ContentsPrologue: Waking Up1 Losing BalanceTechnologies Tilting the Wrong Way2 Big-Picture ThinkingHow Some of Us Came to See What We Now See3 The NumbingWhen Our Devices and Distractions Become Our Pacifiers4 The WeakeningUnnoticed Effects of Effort-Saving Technology5 The New Trojan HorseWhy the Takeover Has Not Been Seen For What It Is6 The StumblingA Slow-Footed Species in a Sprint Economy7 The Footprint of the FutureWe Are Not Cows!8 Seeing Past DystopiaFacing up to Malthus, Orwell, Super-Storm Sandy . . . and What?9 Reigniting ImaginationIn Search of Our Lost Abilities to Anticipate, Envision, and Plan10 Hands, Feet, Bare Skin, and PrivacyThe Last Bastions of Natural Strength11 Overriding EvolutionA Course of High Adventure and Uncertain Salvation12 Breaking AwayBlazing Paths to a New Human Future13 A New BeginningEssential Steps Toward Long-Run SurvivalAppendix: Further Reading and ResourcesIndex

ED AYRES is the former editor of World Watchmagazine, one of the first periodicals to focuson the emerging challenges of environmentaldegradation and destabilized climate.

"This book addresses an extremely important question-what can be done at the personal level to prepare for the decline phrase of our industrial/high energy-intensive society." -Dennis Meadows, co-author, The Limits to Growth

• ContentsPrologue: Waking Up1 Losing BalanceTechnologies Tilting the Wrong Way2 Big-Picture ThinkingHow Some of Us Came to See What We Now See3 The NumbingWhen Our Devices and Distractions Become Our Pacifiers4 The WeakeningUnnoticed Effects of Effort-Saving Technology5 The New Trojan HorseWhy the Takeover Has Not Been Seen For What It Is6 The StumblingA Slow-Footed Species in a Sprint Economy7 The Footprint of the FutureWe Are Not Cows!8 Seeing Past DystopiaFacing up to Malthus, Orwell, Super-Storm Sandy . . . and What?9 Reigniting ImaginationIn Search of Our Lost Abilities to Anticipate, Envision, and Plan10 Hands, Feet, Bare Skin, and PrivacyThe Last Bastions of Natural Strength11 Overriding EvolutionA Course of High Adventure and Uncertain Salvation12 Breaking AwayBlazing Paths to a New Human Future13 A New BeginningEssential Steps Toward Long-Run SurvivalAppendix: Further Reading and ResourcesIndex