"There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who mo…"

"In specific contexts in which abundant empirical evidence is available, fairly reliable short-term prediction and con…"

"Biological organisms, evolving through natural selection, eventually invade every niche in which biological survival …"

"Proposition 1. In any environment that is sufficiently rich, self-propagating systems will arise, and natural selecti…"

"The principle of natural selection is operative not only in biology, but in any environment in which self-propagating…"

"Proposition 2. In the short term, natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term …"

"The world-system has been highly complex for a long time. What is new is that the world-system is now tightly coupled…"

"Meanwhile, fierce competition among global self-prop systems will have led to such drastic and rapid alterations in t…"

"We will argue that if the development of the technological world-system is allowed to proceed to its logical conclusi…"

"As soon as some energy is freed up by conservation, the technological world-system gobbles it up and demands more. No…"