Through the lives of university students, readers gain an in-depth understanding of how the complex interconnections of industry and environment impact us globally and individually. In a book-within-a-book, Professor Katja Nickleby's provides a comprehensive explanation "panarchy": collapsing social and ecological systems. Her "adaptive cycle" comprises rapid growth (r), conservation (K), release ( ) and reorganization ( ). Late-K denotes the point of vulnerability. The rising consciousness of the students and the ...
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Through the lives of university students, readers gain an in-depth understanding of how the complex interconnections of industry and environment impact us globally and individually. In a book-within-a-book, Professor Katja Nickleby's provides a comprehensive explanation "panarchy": collapsing social and ecological systems. Her "adaptive cycle" comprises rapid growth (r), conservation (K), release ( ) and reorganization ( ). Late-K denotes the point of vulnerability. The rising consciousness of the students and the threatening socio-economics forces them to defend local forests and the future of the community. The students' activism in response to the unfolding events challenges the reader to face their own ability to react to issues. How far would one go to force leaders to change their policies? And when our lives and homes are destroyed by escalating events, such as extreme weather, power failure, epidemics, fuel and food shortages - how do we rebuild a sustainable community that survives to the next generation? Late-K Lunacy is disturbingly prophetic, and its complexity is mirrored in events around the world today. In the end the author remains hopeful that communities will have the resiliency to rebuild in a world stripped of modernity. **** "Panarchy invites us to conceive of the world as a vast interlocking set of interactive systems that pass through phases over time. If we can thoroughly understand the implications of panarchy's dynamic, we can perhaps begin to avoid behaviors that quicken the progression of human and ecological systems toward collapse. That is the challenge before us now." - Katja Nickleby, "Over the Cliff" in Late-K Lunacy **** "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring opens with a dystopian portrait of a fictitious town dying from pesticides. Mocked by corporate agribusiness, her non-fiction best-seller became the generative force for the modern environmental movement. Late-K Lunacy follows in this tradition with fiction, this time the threat to human and ecological life being a climate change-induced pandemic. It will frighten the complacent and arm climate justice advocates. Ted Bernard has an engaging and imaginative gift for ecology-based fiction. - H. Patricia Hynes, retired Professor of Environmental Health, author of The Recurring Silent Spring (Pergamon) **** "A devastatingly truthful work of ecology-based fiction and a gripping story of the coming-of-age of a group of post-carbon Millennials. Much more than an ecological dystopia, Late-K Lunacy is a splendid evocation of the world going into - and eventually coming out of - an ecological crisis, as Holling's ecological cycles are characterized by both collapse and recovery, like a never-ending M???bius strip." - Fikret Berkes, author of Sacred Ecology (Routledge) ****
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