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Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future

By Eric Schlosser , Andrew Heintzman , Evan Solomon

Book information

Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0887848265, 9780887848261
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2251295 bytes)
Edition
Original
Pages
360\0
Time added
2012-10-07 16:06:39
Социологические дисциплины;Экологическая социологи

Description

The 21st century appears to be dominated by two major global crises: the scarcity of food and the disappearance of fuel. Through shortages and soaring costs, both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both have undermined the global economy — most importantly, both will continue to do so unless immediate action is taken. This timely and provocative collection of essays explores how and why these problems have developed and what can be done to resolve them. Wide-ranging pieces by trenchant thinkers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gordon Laird, Jeremy Rifkin, Ken Wiwa, Frances Moore Lappé, and Anna Lappé offer valuable strategies to combat global famine and fast-food fat, business models for safe and sustainable food production and power sources, descriptions of emerging technologies and sciences, a reexamination of nuclear power, and much more. Both remarkable for its depth of thought and eminently readable, Food and Fuel provides innovative, practical solutions for dealing with these urgent issues.

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