Unearthed : the economic roots of our environmental crisis /
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2010]
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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?