THE EARTH IS BUT ONE COUNTRY JOHN HUDDLESTON The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom 1976/1988 PART I Back cover The interdependence of all nations and peoples of the earth has today become an established fact and the need for global cooperation on such issues as the environment, health, education, …
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 II Chapter 2: Constructing Scenarios of the Future For choice to be possible, clear alternatives must be available. Each alternative must …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XIII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture and the environment The huge increase in the amount of land under cultivation, the extension of pasture land into new areas and the intensification of …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
