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BL
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581653
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b410872
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| Main Entry
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Hengeveld, Rob
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| Title & Author
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Wasted world : : how our consumption challenges the planet /\ Rob Hengeveld
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago ;London :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2012
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xvii, 337 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780226326993 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226326993 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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Discusses resource consumption, population growth, and waste in relation to humanity's impact on the planet
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on
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Population-- Environmental aspects
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Waste products-- Environmental aspects
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Waste minimization
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| LC Classification
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GF75.H45 2012
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