Front Matter -- Preface -- Introduction: Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment -- Contents -- The Liberation of the Environment -- Time for a Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation -- Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time -- How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature? -- Freeing Energy from Carbon -- Life-styles and the Environment: The Case of Energy -- Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect -- Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends -- Toward the End of Waste: Reflections on a New Ecology of Industry -- Humans in Nature: Toward a Physiocentric Philosophy -- Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years -- Biographical Data -- Index.