{"product_id":"the-human-scaffold-josh-berson-9780520380493","title":"The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eHumanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption--a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Human Scaffold, \u003c\/i\u003e anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. \u003ci\u003eThe Human Scaffold\u003c\/i\u003e offers a starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Berson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520380495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520380493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Josh Berson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995925479679,"sku":"9780520380493","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b69637c7-18c4-4a43-967f-d27ec72ccd9a.jpg?v=1683338676","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-human-scaffold-josh-berson-9780520380493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}