Unearthed the economic roots of our environmental crisis
Title:
Unearthed the economic roots of our environmental crisis
Author:
Sayre, Kenneth M., 1928-
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Publication Information:
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 414 p. : ill.
Contents:
Two laws of thermodynamics -- Entropy and disorder -- Life, negentropy, and biological feedback -- Ecosystems and top consumers -- Entropy trapped within the biosphere -- The rising tide of human energy use -- Economic production and its ecological consequences -- Technological solutions to ecological problems -- Replacing fossil fuel with clean energy -- History and theory of economic growth -- Why economic growth is considered a good thing -- Economics without continuing growth -- Desire for wealth in free-market economies -- Environmental and other ethics -- Typology of social values -- Ecologically destructive values -- Values for survival -- What can be done? What can one do?
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