Can modern Civilization Transform Itself in Order to Survive? The prospects for humanity may look dismal now, but hope resides in realism, which means facing up to the destructive consequences of creating industrial-consumer societies. In Holding It Together: Social Control in an Age of Great Transformation, Dr. Robert MacNeil Christie explains how we got into this mess and what it will take to come out alive. Despite its many benefits, including affluence for many, but destitution for many more, the behemoth of industrial modernity has become an existential threat to modern civilization, and even to the survival of the entire human species if we fail to take major collective action for change. Industrial modernity and its ever-growing technosphere threaten not only our survival, but most ecosystems too. We must 'hold it together' by transforming ourselves, our communities, and our societies into responsible members of the living ecosystems of which we are a part. If we 'hold it together' we may yet find a place of our own in the living Earth system, Gaia

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