SUNDAY, DEC 11, 2022: NOTE TO FILE
The One Book to Bind Them All
And the other 19 books to inform posterity
Eric Lee, A-SOCIATED PRESS
TOPICS: O, FROM THE WIRES, D
Abstract: .This was proposed as an ongoing project of the Union of Concerned Elders to come up with 20 books posterity should read, with the number one book offering a foundation for understanding the others.
COOS BAY (A-P) — Read:
The One Book
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, D. Meadows 2008
And the 19 Books to Inform Posterity (chronological order)
- Tao Te Ching, Laozi 400 BCE
- Walden: or, Life in the Woods, H.D. Thoreau 1854
- The Shape of Things to Come, H.G. Wells 1933
- The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Berger & Luckmann 1966
- Environment, Power, and Society, H.T. Odum 1971
- Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind, D. Meadows, et al. 1972
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind, G. Bateson 1972
- Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts, Vol 1, S. Toulmin 1972
- Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle, G. Hardin 1972
- Mind & Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences), G. Bateson 1979
- Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, W.R. Catton 1980
- Towards a World Theology: Faith and the Comparative History of Religion, W.C. Smith 1981
- The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, M. Gardner 1983
- The Collapse of Complex Societies, J. Tainter 1988
- Steady State Economics: A New Paradigm, H.E. Daly 1993
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, C. Sagan 1995
- Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism, ed. G. Sessions 1995
- The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back — and How we Can Still Save Humanity, J. Lovelock 2006
- Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, E.O. Wilson 2016
Elders can suggest other books for anyone younger than themselves to read. The Union of Concerned Elders will consider suggestions. But read the One Book first.
