AT THE END OF AN AGE JOHN LUKACS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002 PART 1I Chapter 1: At the End of an Age (Cont.) Contradictory dualities To list the evidences of the ending of the Modern Age would fill an enormous book. Here I must try to sum up – or better, to suggest – …
THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS WHY POVERTY, NOT AFFLUENCE, IS THE ENVIRONMENT’S NUMBER ONE ENEMY JACK M. HOLLANDER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 2003 PART 1 Preface The draft of this book was completed barely a month before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, thrust an entirely new set of problems and priorities onto the …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART V Chapter 5: The Supreme Emotion On a recent trip to Europe, I took the opportunity to visit the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Even though I had heard and read a great deal about this …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XV 12.8 What chance a brown revolution? The ‘Green Revolution’ has particularly benefited crop production in areas with irrigation or a sufficient and reliable enough rainfall to guarantee returns on inputs such as fertilizers. The spread of modern varieties into …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture in the developing world The recent agricultural history of the developing world has been very different from that of the industrialized world. These countries had …
AT THE END OF AN AGE JOHN LUKACS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002 PART 1 Chapter 1: At the End of an Age “A civilization disappears with the kind of man, the type of humanity, that has issued from it.” Georges Bernanos Convictions: A personal envoi For a long time I have been convinced …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VIII Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) More influences Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health: most obviously the now widely recognized relationship between …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART IV Chapter 4: Redefining the Goal I have observed that we all naturally desire happiness and not to suffer. I have suggested, furthermore, that these are rights, from which in my opinion we can infer that an ethical act …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIV Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion (Cont.) 12.5 Old and new crops We are an exploratory, inventive species, fascinated by the new, dispensing with the old. So ‘new’ crops attract optimistic headlines while old ones are often blamed for …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XI Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers One of the greatest changes in human history has been the unprecedented and rapid increase in population over the last 250 years. The total number of people …
