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    • Reflections on the End of a Civilization
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....

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    • How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....

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    • The Ideas That Will Remake the World
    • By: David Rothkopf
    • Narrated by: David Rothkopf
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A unique tour around the world in search of the great thinkers of our time and their next big ideas....

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    • A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End
    • By: Lawrence E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Don't look up. It won't help. You can't get out of the way; you can't dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it....

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    • Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
    • By: Rebecca D. Costa
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa confronts - and offers a solution to - that question....

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    • The Shock of Global Population Decline
    • By: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape....

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    • A View from the Future
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature....

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    • Imagining a Future Without Us
    • By: Adam Kirsch
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it....

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    • How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
    • By: Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations....

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    • Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
    • By: Yorick Wilks
    • Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
    • Series: Hot Science Series
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies, and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works....

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    • Fulfilling Ancient Esoteric Agendas Through The Use Of High Technology
    • By: Wayne McRoy
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Alchemical Tech Revolution explores the hidden occult agenda behind the "transhumanist" movement. It also identifies seven key "alchemical" ...

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    • Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
    • By: Rob Hopkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation....

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    • A New Story
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction....

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
    • By: J.B. MacKinnon
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....

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    • By: Charles Handy
    • Narrated by: Charles Handy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Britain's leading guru looks to the future. Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought....

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    • Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
    • By: Margaret J. Wheatley
    • Narrated by: Margaret J. Wheatley
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change....

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    • A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme shortsightedness....

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