Table of Contents
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