Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse: Humanity's Impending Impasse, by William R. Catton Jr.
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Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as “the bottleneck century.” Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can sustain. Second, technological advances of recent centuries have made gigantic and prodigal our per capita resource appetites and our per capita environmental impacts. Third, even though, as the symbol-using species, we humans conceivably could do better at anticipating future circumstances and planning ahead, our evolutionary heritage together with unanticipated dysfunctions of modern division of labor have kept us too preoccupied with short-term concerns. People today are dependent upon a fantastically intricate web of exchange relations (“the market”). Even when functioning normally—and not in a collapsed condition, as currently—this system of relations has a serious and pervasive dehumanizing effect not adequately discerned by economists nor sociologists. Recognition of and adequate adaptation to the deteriorating ecological context of human life has been impeded. Human societies (even our own) are almost certainly going to act in ways that will make an inevitably difficult future unnecessarily worse. Factors analyzed in this book have made people seriously averse to the kind and extent of cooperation our difficult future will require. Together with the basic trio of disturbing trends—humans having become so numerous, so ravenous, and so short-sighted—this has made the nature of today’s human prospect far more dire than most policymakers dare admit. It tempts even the wisest and most civic-minded to seek or promote “remedial” policies that will worsen the real predicament.
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- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
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About the Author William R. Catton, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Washington State University, has also taught and done research in Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere in the U.S. After World War II U.S. Navy service, he majored in history at Oberlin College and earned his Ph.D.at the University of Washington. Research on wild land resource use and management led to his later focus upon principles of ecology. Bottleneck is a sequel to his 1980 book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. He has written more than a hundred journal articles and contributed book chapters, plus several dozen book reviews.
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58 of 62 people found the following review helpful. Sequel to a masterpiece By acerbas This book is the sequel to Overshoot, written by Catton almost 30 years ago. As another reviewer mentioned, Overshoot should be read first, inasmuch as it is foundational in terms of understanding Bottleneck. Overshoot is a masterpiece; the most important book I have ever read (and I do a lot of reading) and one which truly altered the way in which I perceive the world. In comparison, Bottleneck falls somewhat short. It is rambling, prolix and pedantic; far from an easy read. That is why I can only award it 4 stars. Perhaps we might attribute some of its shortcomings to the fact that the author is now 83 years old. Nevertheless, it does build upon Overshoot and contains many valuable observations and insights, particularly with respect to the implications for developing public policy. Unfortunately, it is pretty much a given that the people who should be paying closest attention to Catton's recommendations, namely the politicians (and the people who pull their strings) are the ones who most benefit from the status quo and therefore are least likely to relinquish their outmoded understandings of how our little spaceship works. The human population has already greatly surpassed the sustainable long-term carrying capacity of the planet and short of Draconian measures a massive die-off is inevitable. Mamas don't let your kids have babies.In the immortal words of Tonio K. [...]
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Worthy Successor to Overshoot By Philip P. Ardery Previous reviewers have recommended that prospective readers of Bottleneck start with Catton's Overshoot (1980). I agree, but I also affirm that a light acquaintance with Overshoot, easily achieved by online reading at Amazon and other sites, supplies sufficient foundation for full engagement with Bottleneck.Bottleneck distills 30 years of Catton's efforts to better understand why Americans (and others) have not acted on knowledge whose application could have softened the impact of our overshooting Earth's carrying capacity. The book analyzes with fresh insights the interplay of labor specialization, money, and language in the modern era, revealing how we have arrived almost inevitably at "humanity's impending impasse" (the book's subtitle). I cannot adequately summarize that analysis here, but please know that it exposes unsustainable structural features in our behaviors and institutions too deep to be altered by our current systems of social organization and governance.Even after continued drawdown forces humankind through our 21st century ecological bottleneck, there's no guarantee that survivors can or will avoid repeating our mistakes. That's a major reason why Catton spent years researching and writing this book. I can imagine that as he forswore an easy retirement, dedicating his energies to this project, he may have tacked to his office wall for inspiration Diderot's remark from the foreword to the 1765 edition of the French Encyclopedia: "Suppose that a revolution, whose seeds have sprouted in some remote region of the earth or may be germinating in the very center of a civilized country, should burst forth, destroy the cities, scatter the nations, and bring back ignorance and darkness. All will not be lost if a single complete edition of this work survives."My hyperbolic imagining greatly exaggerates Catton's own more modest declaration of intent. He writes, his two small great-grandsons alive in his thoughts, "I hope by the time they become great-grandfathers themselves, their generation will be so conspicuously more enlightened than mine was and our forebears were that the world population of bottleneck survivors will have evolved social systems better able to be circumspect in their use of their planet and its vulnerable biosphere. If readers of this book come to share similar hopes, and contribute to instilling them in their descendants, my reasons for writing will have been justified."
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Don't waste your money; read 'Overshoot' instead By J S Powers This author's 1980 book 'Overshoot' was a tour-de-force. Technically spot-on, to the point and relentless in its presentation. Overshoot is a 'must-read' for any informed human being.This book 'Bottleneck' rambles, digresses on everything from baseball minutea, a detailed history of 20th century sociology and sociologists, to children's fables and his family life. Most of us are too pressed for time to filter the useful information in this book from the extensive irrelevant digressions. Much of this, quite frankly, is probably due to the writer's advanced age at the time that this book was written, and poor editing. It is a catch-all college professor's memoirs jumbled around a serious subject.Everything in 'Bottleneck' that is useful is a rehash of what the writer gave us in 'Overshoot'. Your time and money are much better spent pursuing that work. 'Overshoot' should be re-released under the title 'Bottleneck' and this effort should be scrapped.And yes, I have read both books.My hat is off to this writer. He has left behind a great work. But this book is not it.
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