This book compares and critiques attitudes of people of different world views to the prospect of widespread declines in quality of life. Develops a philosophy of Ecohumanism in which people 'think like an evolving ecosystem' about the world's converging problems.

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system. This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the hypothetical prospect of large widespread falls in quality of life. It also draws insights from these two analyses to develop and suggest a philosophy of Ecohumanism to people of good will who want to think constructively about the world's converging problems, i.e. think altruistically and 'think like an evolving ecosystem.'

Builds up an historical and pre-historical understanding of how humanity and the human ecosystem came to be as they are Discusses Ecohumanism as a tool for thinking about the Global Overshoot Crisis Attempts to understand what is happening within the world's problems rather than suggest solutions Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
The Deep Past: A Story of Pervasive Change.- Stages in the Evolution of Modern Humans.- Emergence and Evolution of Complex Societies.- The Road to High Complexity.- Confronting GLobal Overshoot.- Ecohumanism and other Stories.- Index.