Life on a modern planet: a manifesto for progress
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| Schriftenreihe: | Issues in environmental politics
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| Beschreibung: | X, 326 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0719045665 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of illustrations page viii
Acknowledgements ix
Prologue:
Mathare Valley, Nairobi, Kenya 1
Introduction 5
I Too many humans? 11
1 Snapshotof a modern planet: busy and largely successful 13
The doom that never came 13
Sketching the success in food 16
The wider success 18
2 Defusing the population bomb: fertility, famine and
affluence 24
The global picture 24
Kenya: the good news 26
Exponential growth 27
Shouting the odds 27
Winning the changes 30
3 Feeding the future billions: some clues 35
Humankind the farmer 35
Constraints all around the world 3 8
Destructive myths: the anti farming propaganda 40
The real agenda 48
Breaking through the barriers 51
The bio industrial revolution 55
The global good news 58
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4 Fuelling the future billions: some clues 63
From science to policy: clearing the air 63
Energy crisis: what energy crisis? 75
Beauty or beast? nuclear power 80
II The consumer, the campaigners and chemophobia 95
5 The myth of ecological disaster: Apocalypse not yet 97
Oil slicks: the campaigners classic ecological disaster 97
Camelford: something in the water 110
6 Aesthetics versus ecology: wind and water at war
with the landscape 118
Ecology or aesthetics? 118
Windmills: alternative energy or vandalism? 119
Water power: huge potential for energy and
vandalism 122
7 Chlorine: devil s element or useful member of society? 123
The chemicals industry and Greenpeace on the
Coted Azur 123
The beginnings of the chlorine story 125
Chlorine in disasters 128
Chlorine: killing in small doses ? 134
Organochlorines: dangerous and indestructible? 141
The nature of organochlorines 147
So should we ban chlorine production? 153
8 Oh for the simple life: right living, right technology. 164
How shall recycling make a comeback ? 164
Exploring ecological costs 169
The green consumer: spoiled for choice 173
A long and healthy life 179
A lighter footprint from industry 182
III Humankind, nature and development 187
9 Paradise, wilderness and the nursery wo rid: the worlds
we have lost 189
Ecology, the not so romantic science 189
Paradise and the theme park 192
The wilderness, paradise and monks 194
Trouble in paradise 197
Original affluence ? 198
Contents vii
10 Wilderness and the Manscape: what we can really
expect from the primitive 207
Making the wilderness into a Manscape 207
Britain s dilemmas: conservation in small crowded
islands 208
The American wilderness 214
Tropical wilderness: the scene of ecolonialism 224
Another big mammal, or: how many whales do we
need? 229
The rainforest 233
Modernising the noble savage 240
11 Facing facts in the rich world 250
A new way of seeing the world 250
Regulatory fundamentalists: Greenpeace 255
Campaigners, politics and dissidence 259
Finding a balanced approach 264
Assessing where the balance lies 266
Helping governments gain trust 267
Uniting economics and ecology 271
12 Humanising development, developing humanism 276
The literature of hope 276
The good news that dare not speak its name 278
The market and social cohesion 282
Intervening to end intervention 285
Redefining development 288
After empire, international governance in the modern
world 292
Epilogue 299
In Monterrey, Mexico 299
Further Reading 306
Index 310
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