A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART X Chapter 10: Disease and Death (Cont) The diseases of industrialization and urbanization From the late 18th century there was a wave of rapid population growth, industrialization and urbanization in western Europe and …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1I Chapter 1: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Cont.) Creating hunger with monocultures Global chemical corporations, recently reshaped into “life sciences” corporations, declare that without them and their patented products, the world cannot be fed. Industrial agriculture …
THE GREAT EXPERIMENT THE STORY OF ANCIENT EMPIRES, MODERN STATES, AND THE QUEST FOR A GLOBAL NATION STROBE TALBOTT SIMON & SCHUSTER 2008 PART II PART ONE: THE IMPERIAL MILLENIA Chapter 1: Caravans at Rest Chapter 2: A Light Unto the Nations Chapter 3: The Ecumenical State Chapter 4: The Poet and ‘The Prince’ …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XII Chapter 11: What the World Eats Now 11.1 Introduction: food for thought about food In this chapter we look at the several aspects of the present world food situation and begin to wonder where we from here. Despite a …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XIII Chapter 46: A Backward Look In 1922, the British writer H.G. Wells published his best-selling A Short History of the World. It ended with the following: As yet we are hardly in the dawn of human greatness. Can we doubt …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1 Introduction Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls “growth” is really a form of theft from nature and …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XI Chapter 10: The Sixth Billion (1986-1998/9) 10.1 Introduction: the recognition of limits In 1998/9, just 200 years after Malthus first published his Essay on the Principle of Population, the world population will reach 6 billion. That is six times …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VIII Chapter 10: Disease and Death The way in which humans have lived and the environments they have created have had a profound effect on their health, life expectancy and the causes from …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART III Chapter 2: Oil, Geography, and War: The Competitive Pursuit of Petroleum Plenty Chapter 3: Oil Conflict in the Persian Gulf Chapter 4: Energy Conflict in the Caspian Sea Basin Chapter 5: Oil Wars in the South China …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART X 9.5 integrated pest management: changing the paradigm The introduction of the Vedalia beetle into California in 1889 to control the cottony-cushion scale of citrus was a spectacular example of the biological control of insect pests. At least, it was …
