Unearthed : the economic roots of our environmental crisis /
"With unerring logic and science, Kenneth Sayre dissects the origins of the ecological crisis and points to the necessary recalibration of industrial societies with the laws of thermodynamics and ecology. It is a radical book in that he gets to the heart of what ails us, and it charts a course...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2010
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| Series: | Project Muse philosophy and religion collection.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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?
