Wasted world : how our consumption challenges the planet.
All systems produce waste as part of a cycle—bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled—though never completely. In Wasted World, Rob Hengeveld reveals how a long history of human consumption has l...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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- Natural processes
- The nature of life: making waste
- Nature goes in cycles
- Ongoing processes in the human population
- Population growth and its limitations
- The growing problem of mankind
- Population growth and agricultural production
- Population growth and industrial production
- Agribusiness and corporate states
- Exhausting and wasting our resources
- Peak oil and beyond
- Limited resources
- Man-made waste
- When it's gone, it's gone
- Exhausting and wasting our environment
- Our freshwater is running out!
- Polluting the air and warming our climate
- Deforestation and its consequences
- The loss of biodiversity
- Wasted land
- Toward a collapse of our society
- Processes within the human population
- What is overpopulation?
- Bursting out of Eden
- Urbanization
- Migration
- The spread of diseases
- The dynamic structure of society
- Processes within the global society
- From a concrete to an abstract world
- The energy and information content of society
- Can our world population collapse?
- The persistence of mankind
- Another future for our human world?
- The road we took, and the way forward
- The emperor's new clothes.