A pessimist's hope
Subtitle: food and the ecological crisis
By: by Patrick Kerans
Publisher: Baico
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ottawa, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781926945293
Subjects: Food industry and trade; Food supply; Environmental aspects; Agricultural industries; Human ecology; Industries agricoles; Aspect de l'environnement; Écologie humaine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Pessimism. Chapter 1. The Industrialized food system: productivity and unsustainability; title: Chapter 2. Food and biology; title: Chapter 3. The Market and ecological limits; title: Chapter 4. Social inertia: social systems and the state; title: Chapter 5. Personal inertia: the luxury of despair; title: Part Two. Hope. Chapter 6. Resistance; title: Chapter 7. Lessons from post-Soviet Cuba; title: Chapter 8. Hope and experience; title: Chapter 9. Science and the grounds of hope; title: Chapter 10. We give each other hope.