Planet Aqua

"What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society."--

Detailed Contents                vii
Acknowledgments                x
Introduction       
Part I The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization
1                        First There Was the Waters         
2                        The Earth Be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization         
3                        Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Firma and Planet Aqua       
4                        The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism           
Part II The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Eco-Region Became Day Zero on a Warming Earth and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life
5                        The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean           
6                        Location, Location, Location: The Eurasian Pangaea     
Part III We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything
7                        Freeing the Waters         
8                        The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society               
9                        Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We've Come from and Where We're Heading               
10                  Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors               
11                  The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of Bioregional Governance         
Part IV Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth
12                  Two Ways to Listen to the Waters           
13                  Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse         
Notes   
Index