One Planet Is Enough
Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Threats through Technology
Authors: Westergård, Rune
Free Preview- 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
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Ecological Shackle
Pages 1-5
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The Children of Technology
Pages 7-13
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Darwin and the Machines
Pages 15-28
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The Long and Winding Road to a Better Life
Pages 29-37
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The Mechanisms of Progress
Pages 39-46
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- One Planet Is Enough
- Book Subtitle
- Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Threats through Technology
- Authors
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- Rune Westergård
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-60913-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-60913-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-60912-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86958-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 150
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
- Topics
