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    • Life After Capitalism
    • By: Peter Frase
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down....

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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 33 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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    • 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 136 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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    • 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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    • What's Next?
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • David Christian is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. With Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future....

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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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    • The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
    • By: Andrew Maynard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society....

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    • Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
    • By: Bradley Schurman
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future....

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    • Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
    • By: Nick Bilton
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 09-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Listen to find out more....

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    • How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
    • By: Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams
    • Narrated by: Roy H. Williams, Michael R. Drew
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable....

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    • How to Grapple with Complexity, Lead with Purpose, and Cultivate Transformative Social Change
    • By: Kari Grain
    • Narrated by: Kari Grain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hope alone can be transformational - but in moments of despair, or when you’re up against profound injustice, it isn’t enough on its own. Hope without action is, at best, naive. At its worst, it tricks you into giving up the power and agency you have....

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    • Based on World Prophecies of the Famed Indian Mystic Paramhansa Yogananda
    • By: Swami Kriyananda
    • Narrated by: Rammurti Reed
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • Man’s sophistication in the techniques of destruction seems hardly to be outdistancing his willingness to destroy himself. Numerous scientists have stated that we are fast approaching a time of such overpopulation that our planet simply won’t be able to produce enough food to feed everyone....

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    • A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
    • By: Corey Pein
    • Narrated by: Corey Pein
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit....

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    • Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world....

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    • Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
    • By: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Turning the spotlight on the crises of our time, Age of Discovery shows how we can all define and create a lasting legacy that the world will still celebrate 500 years from now....

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    • Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?
    • By: Duane Elgin
    • Narrated by: Robin Haynes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The author of the classic best seller shows how an exciting, new understanding of the nature of the universe has far-reaching implications....

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    • How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same way as cancer does in a body, and like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economics....

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    • Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
    • By: Bill McKibben
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 334 ratings
    • Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now, he broadens the warning: The entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out....

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    • The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
    • By: George Dyson
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution - and an unsettling vision of what comes next....

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    • Envisioning a Post-Peak World
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Tony Craine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....

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