Unlivable Earth
Subtitle: how consumption and waste are killing our planet
By: Rob Hengeveld
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780226326993
Subjects: Nature; Waste products; Environmental aspects; Population; Waste minimization; Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural processes; title: The nature of life: making waste; title: Nature goes in cycles; title: Ongoing processes in the human population; title: Population growth and its limitations; title: The growing problem of mankind; title: Population growth and agricultural production; title: Population growth and industrial production; title: Agribusiness and corporate states; title: Exhausting and wasting our resources; title: Peak oil and beyond; title: Limited resources; title: Man-made waste; title: When it's gone, it's gone; title: Exhausting and wasting our environment; title: Our freshwater is running out!; title: Polluting the air and warming our climate; title: Deforestation and its consequences; title: The loss of biodiversity; title: Wasted land; title: Toward a collapse of our society; title: Processes within the human population; title: What is overpopulation?; title: Bursting out of Eden; title: Urbanization; title: Migration; title: The spread of diseases; title: The dynamic structure of society; title: Processes within the global society; title: From a concrete to an abstract world; title: The energy and information content of society; title: Can our world population collapse?; title: The persistence of mankind; title: Another future for our human world?; title: The road we took, and the way forward; title: The emperor's new clothes.