Overview
Offers a compelling sketch of how technological advances have shaped humankind’s evolution and how they can unlock ways to combat climate change and environmental threats
Shows new perspectives on climate change and sustainable development based on harnessing technology
Challenges the view that only a decrease in consumption and the related decline in living standards can effectively address climate change
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The present book offers a compelling sketch of how technological advances have shaped humankind’s evolution and how they can unlock ways to combat climate change and environmental threats. It also reveals new perspectives on climate change and sustainable development by harnessing technology.
Given today’s conditions, only a homeless vegan could achieve a sustainable ecological footprint. In reality, it would be impossible, and even destructive, to attempt to save the planet by discontinuing consumption. It would disrupt evolution and threaten the driving forces of the technology that is our hope for combating climate change and environmental threats in the future.
This is the opinion of Rune Westergård, engineer, entrepreneur, and environmental debater, with several decades of experience from the field of environmental and energy technology. He challenges many established truths on consumption and sustainability and demonstrates how and why they are flawed. From his point of view, both continued global growth and increased welfare are entirely possible within the ecological limitations of our planet. Once we learn to put technology to our best advantage, one planet will be enough.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: One Planet Is Enough
Book Subtitle: Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Threats through Technology
Authors: Rune Westergård
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60913-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60912-6Published: 21 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86958-2Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60913-3Published: 06 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 150
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Development and Sustainability, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Energy Policy, Economics and Management