Unearthed
Subtitle: the economic roots of our environmental crisis
By: Kenneth M. Sayre
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780268041366
Subjects: Energy consumption; Energy conservation; Environmental aspects; Philosophy; Economic development; Entropy; Ecological engineering; Energy dissipation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-407) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two laws of thermodynamics; title: Entropy and disorder; title: Life, negentropy, and biological feedback; title: Ecosystems and top consumers; title: Entropy trapped within the biosphere; title: The rising tide of human energy use; title: Economic production and its ecological consequences; title: Technological solutions to ecological problems; title: Replacing fossil fuel with clean energy; title: History and theory of economic growth; title: Why economic growth is considered a good thing; title: Economics without continuing growth; title: Desire for wealth in free-market economies; title: Environmental and other ethics; title: Typology of social values; title: Ecologically destructive values; title: Values for survival; title: What can be done? What can one do?