1990
Author: Barry Commoner
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Reviews past efforts to repair environmental damage and documents the shortcomings of the eco-revolution.
Author: Barry Commoner
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Reviews past efforts to repair environmental damage and documents the shortcomings of the eco-revolution.
Author: John Bellamy Foster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The roots of the present ecological crisis, Foster argues, lie in capital's rapacious expansion, which has now achieved unprecedented heights of irrationality across the globe. Foster demonstrates that the only possible answer for humanity is an ecological revolution: a struggle to make peace with the planet. Foster details the beginnings of such a revolution in human relations with the environment which can now be found throughout the globe, especially in the periphery of the world system, where the most ambitious experiments are taking place. From publisher description.
Author: Jerome Binde
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845454982
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Without immediate action to combat global warming, we face losing 5 to 20 per cent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Our biosphere is in jeopardy: increased desertification, deforestation, air and soil pollution, dwindling biodiversity, water crises and the degradation of the oceans. A new approach to our economy is needed, one that fosters less material forms of production, reduces superfluous consumption and wastes less raw material. We have to create and implement new styles of development that, without halting growth, spare the planet and preserve biodiversity. It is time, as this volume proposes, for humanity to make a new pact, a 'natural contract', of co-development with the planet. UNESCO is actively involved in this debate, as reflected in its 21st Century Talks series, which open a forum for discussion on key issues of the future.--Publisher's description.
Author: Heather Rogers
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595585729
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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“A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review). Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific Ocean contains six times more plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly and fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage. Gone Tomorrow excavates the history of rubbish handling from the nineteenth century to the present, pinpointing the roots of today’s waste-addicted society. With a “lively authorial voice,” Rogers draws connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our throwaway lifestyle (New York Press). She also investigates the politics of recycling and the export of trash to poor countries, while offering a potent argument for change. “A clear-thinking and peppery writer, Rogers presents a galvanizing exposé of how we became the planet’s trash monsters. . . . [Gone Tomorrow] details everything that is wrong with today’s wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators. . . . Rogers exhibits black-belt precision.” —Booklist, starred review
Author: Hans Jörg Sandkühler
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy and science
Languages : de
Pages : 505
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Der Titel des Buches ist programmatisch und enthalt eine provokante These: Es gab und gibt, allen Dementis zum Trotz, Interaktionen zwischen Philosophie und empirischen und experimentellen Wissenschaften. Helmholtz' Mahnung war nicht das letzte Wort: -Die Naturforscher wurden von den Philosophen der Borniertheit geziehen; diese von jenen der Sinnlosigkeit.- Auf die Frage, ob Kooperationen gelungen oder Konkurrenzen missgluckt sind, bietet dieser Band Antworten aus Binnenperspektiven sowohl der Philosophie als auch einzelner Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften, - Antworten im fragenden Umgang mit Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes und Spinoza, mit Kant und den ihm zwar "nach-" aber kaum "folgenden" Fichte und Schelling und Hegel, mit Comte, Feuerbach und Marx, Joh. Muller, Helmholtz, Peirce, Cassirer und Neurath... Die Beitrage sind dem heute notwendigen Programm verpflichtet, in dem sich die Philosophie und die Wissenschaften, die Wissenschaftsgeschichte und die Philosophiegeschichte in gemeinsamer Arbeit begegnen."
Author: Geoffrey W. R. Palmer
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864732620
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Petra Goedde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199912521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations. This study explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over the best strategy to achieve it. The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political transformation of the Cold War.
Author: KIM. MICHAELS
Publisher: More to Life Publishing
ISBN: 9788793297579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Become one of the few spiritual seekers who are at peace with being on this planet
Author: Daniel D. Chiras
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781559631068
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Citizens concerned about the environment are taking up the call for a new, sustainable lifestyle. "Lessons from Nature" tells us what sustainability really is, and how we can achieve it. Daniel Chiras brings the concept of sustainability to life, defining it in a variety of contexts -- economic, biological, political, and ethical -- and exploring creative, practical ways to apply the principles of sustainability to nearly all aspects of modern life.
Author: L. R. Jones
Publisher: Jai Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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This 12th volume in the series covers a variety of topics in the field of self, collective behaviour and society.
