Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology.

Autorentext

William R. Catton, Jr., was a professor of sociology at Washington State University and author of From Animistic to Naturalistic Sociology and more than seventy-five articles in such journals as American Sociologist, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Forestry, and BioScience.

Titel
Overshoot
Untertitel
The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
EAN
9780252098000
ISBN
978-0-252-09800-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
10.04.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.18 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch