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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (review)

First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (review) Book Reviews earth will do what it needs to do in order to restore the conditions necessary for the preservation of life within our biosphere. If there is too much CO2 in the atmosphere, the earth will respond by eliminating its source: humanity. Yet, maybe humanity may survive in some reduced and beleaguered form as the planet restores order and preserves life. Even if that happens, we may survive only a few million years, for our level of complexity will again be so advanced that very deep entropy will prevail and humanity will succumb. This last chapter is just a tease, for while it examines human history from the theoretical foundation he has established, it does so with just a sketch. I would like to know in much greater depth how the complexity we have created has doomed us. How do we sidestep entropy? For example, Spier tells us that we will exhaust our petroleum reserves in one hundred years and we should explore alternative energy sources. He then reviews the limitations of solar energy, but makes no mention of the potential of wind as an alternative energy source. While this book builds a good theoretical framework for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (review)

Journal of World History , Volume 23 (1) – Jun 15, 2012

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Book Reviews earth will do what it needs to do in order to restore the conditions necessary for the preservation of life within our biosphere. If there is too much CO2 in the atmosphere, the earth will respond by eliminating its source: humanity. Yet, maybe humanity may survive in some reduced and beleaguered form as the planet restores order and preserves life. Even if that happens, we may survive only a few million years, for our level of complexity will again be so advanced that very deep entropy will prevail and humanity will succumb. This last chapter is just a tease, for while it examines human history from the theoretical foundation he has established, it does so with just a sketch. I would like to know in much greater depth how the complexity we have created has doomed us. How do we sidestep entropy? For example, Spier tells us that we will exhaust our petroleum reserves in one hundred years and we should explore alternative energy sources. He then reviews the limitations of solar energy, but makes no mention of the potential of wind as an alternative energy source. While this book builds a good theoretical framework for

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Journal of World HistoryUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jun 15, 2012

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