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 …
WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I LIVED FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU GREAT IDEAS PENGUIN BOOKS 1854/2005 PART 1I Economy (Cont.) If I should attempt to tell how I have desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIII Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion 12.1 Introduction: routes to greater food production The world must develop the capacity to feed the ten billion within the next 40-50 years, predominantly within Asia and Africa. There are two quite separate …
