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The price for a planet / by Keith Slater.

Title: The price for a planet / by Keith Slater.
Author: Slater, Keith
Publication: Guelph, Ont. : Questex Consulting, c1996.

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Description

iv, 213 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-213).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Reasons for the book -- The world today and the need for change -- Population, consumption and pollution -- Benefits and costs of stagnation -- The beginnings of civilisation -- The development of technical competence -- Food and agriculture -- Migration and transportation -- Energy and tool use -- Materials production -- Medicine -- Social conditions -- The modern situation -- Our present "solutions" -- New approaches -- Short-term solutions -- Population control -- Consumption reduction -- Rules for survival -- Social revolution -- Moral and religious revolution -- Economic revolution -- Political revolution -- Legal revolution -- Educational revolution -- Benefits and costs of the new society -- Future technological pathways.

ISBN

0969656149 :

LCCN

cn^96931312^

OCLC

35925389

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library