دانلود کتاب Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet

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Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1: Natural Processes\r......Page 20
1. The Nature of Life: Making Waste......Page 22
2. Nature Goes in Cycles......Page 34
Part Two: Ongoing Processes in the Human Population\r......Page 42
I. Population Growth and Its Limitations\r......Page 44
A. The Growing Problem of Mankind......Page 46
3. Population Growth and Agricultural Production......Page 47
4. Population Growth and Industrial Production......Page 66
5. Agribusiness and Corporate States......Page 76
B. Exhausting and Wasting Our Resources......Page 90
6. Peak Oil and Beyond......Page 91
7. Limited Resources......Page 105
8. Man-Made Waste......Page 113
9. When It’s Gone, It’s Gone......Page 125
C. Exhausting and Wasting Our Environment......Page 140
10. Our Freshwater Is Running Out!......Page 141
11. Polluting the Air and Warming Our Climate......Page 155
12. Deforestation and Its Consequences......Page 172
13. The Loss of Biodiversity......Page 182
14. Wasted Land......Page 192
II. Toward a Collapse of Our Society?\r......Page 204
D. Processes within the Human Population......Page 206
15. What Is Overpopulation?......Page 207
16. Bursting Out of Eden......Page 221
17. Urbanization......Page 233
18. Migration......Page 239
19. The Spread of Diseases......Page 248
20. The Dynamic Structure of Society......Page 260
E. Processes within the Global Society......Page 272
21. From a Concrete to an Abstract World......Page 273
22. The Energy and Information Content of Society......Page 283
23. Can Our World Population Collapse?......Page 297
III. The Persistence of Mankind\r......Page 312
F. Another Future for Our Human World?......Page 314
24. The Road We Took, and the Way Forward......Page 315
Epilogue: The Emperor’s New Clothes......Page 326
About the Author......Page 332
Acknowledgments......Page 334
Selected Bibliography......Page 336