A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XV Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Water The intensification of food production and the huge increase in output in the last two centuries have been partially achieved by a massive increase in …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART VII Chapter 7: The Ethic of Virtue I have suggested that if we are to be genuinely happy, inner restraint is indispensable. We cannot stop at restraint, however. Though it may prevent us from performing any grossly negative misdeeds, mere …
INDEX TO POSTINGS IN OCTOBER 2011 A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting part 9 October 1 The Story of Man: An Introduction to 150,0/00 years of Human History Part 13 by Cyril Aydon October 2 Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and …
THE ECONOMICS OF INNOCENT FRAUD J.K. GALBRAITH PENGUIN BOOKS 2004/2005 PART I Back cover A lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power and the most widely read economist of the 20th century, the legendary Harvard professor J.K. Galbraith has been published by Penguin for more than 40 years. His latest book, The Economics of Innocent …
SEVEN TOMORROWS TOWARD A VOLUNTARY HISTORY THE POTENTIAL CRISES THAT FACE HUMANKIND – AND THE ROLE OF CHOICE IN DETERMINING THE FUTURE PAUL HAWKEN, JAMES OGILVY, PETER SCHWARTZ BANTAM NEW AGE BOOKS 1982 PART I Back cover THE OFFICIAL FUTURE – Where people gladly trade environmental deterioration, rising crime and personal freedom for technological …
WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I LIVED FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU GREAT IDEAS PENGUIN BOOKS 1854/2005 PART 1 Economy When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone in the woods, a mile from my neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XIV Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Soil erosion In almost every part of the world modern agriculture has led to severe soil erosion in the wake of deforestation, ploughing up of grasslands …
AT THE END OF AN AGE JOHN LUKACS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002 PART 1II Chapter 1: At the End of an Age (Cont.) The Age of Schooling The age of institutional schooling was another feature of the Modern Age. There were universities in the Middle Ages but few (or no) schools of general learning. …
THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS WHY POVERTY, NOT AFFLUENCE, IS THE ENVIRONMENT’S NUMBER ONE ENEMY JACK M. HOLLANDER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 2003 PART 1I Introduction: A Crisis of Pessimism (Cont.) The environmental legacy of Vietnam Although the influence of science on the environmental movement remained strong during the 1960s and 1970s, the influence of politics …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART VI PART II: ETHICS AND THE INDIVIDUAL Chapter 6: The Ethic of Restraint I have suggested that developing the compassion on which happiness depends demands a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, we need to restrain those factors which …
