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Unlivable Earth

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A look at sustainability from a biologist with expertise in species abundance and distribution, presenting a picture of using, wasting, and exhausting energy and resources. Traces histories of population growth and resource use to examine the resulting waste. Life and growth depends on resources and energy. Growth in energy need spurs growth in energy sources: water, wind, animals, and fossil energy. Fossil energy generates atmospheric waste, which creates climate change. Climate change causes food shortages and social collapse. Because the problems are interconnected, solving individual problems cannot work. Instead, we need to tackle population growth.

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The University of Chicago Press
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English

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Nature, Environmental aspects, Waste minimization, Effect of human beings on, Waste products, Population, Drama, Man-woman relationships, Blue collar workers, Swindlers and swindling, Factories, Midlife crisis, Nature, effect of human beings on

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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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304.2/8
Library of Congress
GF75 .H45 2012, GF75.H45 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL24886054M
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0226326993
ISBN 13
9780226326993
LCCN
2011025255
OCLC/WorldCat
733546748

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