Full title: Wasted world [electronic resource] : how our consumption challenges the planet / Rob Hengeveld.

Author/creator: ProQuest Ebook Central, ProQuest (Firm), Hengeveld, Rob.

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Record Identifier: 74VvyjrQ3X5A

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource., Natural processes -- The nature of life: making waste -- Nature goes in cycles -- Ongoing processes in the human population -- Population growth and its limitations -- The growing problem of mankind -- Population growth and agricultural production -- Population growth and industrial production -- Agribusiness and corporate states -- Exhausting and wasting our resources -- Peak oil and beyond -- Limited resources -- Man-made waste -- When it's gone, it's gone -- Exhausting and wasting our environment -- Our freshwater is running out! -- Polluting the air and warming our climate -- Deforestation and its consequences -- The loss of biodiversity -- Wasted land -- Toward a collapse of our society -- Processes within the human population -- What is overpopulation? -- Bursting out of Eden -- Urbanization -- Migration -- The spread of diseases -- The dynamic structure of society -- Processes within the global society -- From a concrete to an abstract world -- The energy and information content of society -- Can our world population collapse? -- The persistence of mankind -- Another future for our human world? -- The road we took, and the way forward -- The emperor's new clothes.

Publishers: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2012.

Notes: Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 304.28

MMS ID: 991016229639702626