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Unearthed : the economic roots of our environmental crisis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sayre, Kenneth M., 1928-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Energy consumption > Philosophy.
Energy conservation > Philosophy.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Entropy > Environmental aspects.
Energy dissipation > Environmental aspects.
Ecological engineering.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Two laws of thermodynamics
  • Entropy and disorder
  • Life, negentropy, and biological feedback
  • Ecosystems and top consumers
  • Entropy trapped within the biosphere
  • The rising tide of human energy use
  • Economic production and its ecological consequences
  • Technological solutions to ecological problems
  • Replacing fossil fuel with clean energy
  • History and theory of economic growth
  • Why economic growth is considered a good thing
  • Economics without continuing growth
  • Desire for wealth in free-market economies
  • Environmental and other ethics
  • Typology of social values
  • Ecologically destructive values
  • Values for survival
  • What can be done? What can one do?