Overview
Provides a sound and comprehensible assessment of the major ecological crises
Sets out clear priorities for our future action
Reassesses the facts on the issue of sustainability
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basics
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Energy and Raw Materials
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About this book
Humans are overexploiting nature, consuming too much energy, too many raw materials, too much land. In short, the current economic and living conditions of mankind, especially here in the West, are not sustainable.
Who would disagree with this verdict? The evidence seems overwhelming: species extinction, rainforest deforestation, scarcity of raw materials, soil erosion, plastic waste, ecological footprint and, of course, climate change. But how reliable are these indicators? Are there perhaps also other indications, positive developments? And are all these problems of equal urgency?
This book gives you answers: well-founded, comprehensible, to the point. It proves that the reports and headlines on ecological issues in the mainstream media are often one-sided, exaggerated and thus misleading. The book does not trivialize, but it differentiates. Using the relevant international reports and databases, it presents overall contexts where otherwise usually only individual, striking figures are picked out.With over 70 graphic illustrations, the book thus paints a new picture of the state of the planet and of the effects of human economic activity and consumption. At the end is a clear list of priorities for the real sustainability challenges - for humanity as a whole, and also for the people living in the West.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Factfulness Sustainability
Book Subtitle: What you should know about Ecological Crises and Resource Consumption
Authors: Thomas Unnerstall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65558-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-65557-3Published: 28 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-65558-0Published: 27 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 244
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general