- Description
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 414 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Unearthed (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Unearthed (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-407) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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?
- LCCN
- 2010024338
- OCLC
- ssj0000631046
- Author
Sayre, Kenneth M., 1928-2022.
- Title
Unearthed [electronic resource] : the economic roots of our environmental crisis / Kenneth M. Sayre.
- Imprint
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-407) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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