Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse Humanity's Impending Impasse

Name: Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse Humanity's Impending Impasse
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ISBN: 9781441522412

ISBN-10: 1441522417

ISBN-13: 9781441522412

Edition: 2009

Authors: William R. Catton

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Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as "the bottleneck century." Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can sustain. Second, technological advances of recent centuries have made gigantic and prodigal our per capita resource appetites and our per capita environmental impacts. Third, even though, as the symbol-using species, we humans conceivably could do better at anticipating future circumstances and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation LLC
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English