TY - BOOK AU - Hengeveld,Rob TI - Wasted world: how our consumption challenges the planet SN - 9780226326993 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - GF75 .H45 2012 U1 - 304.2/8 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Population KW - Environmental aspects KW - Waste products KW - Waste minimization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Natural processes -- The nature of life: making waste -- Nature goes in cycles -- Ongoing processes in the human population -- Population growth and its limitations -- The growing problem of mankind -- Population growth and agricultural production -- Population growth and industrial production -- Agribusiness and corporate states -- Exhausting and wasting our resources -- Peak oil and beyond -- Limited resources -- Man-made waste -- When it's gone, it's gone -- Exhausting and wasting our environment -- Our freshwater is running out! -- Polluting the air and warming our climate -- Deforestation and its consequences -- The loss of biodiversity -- Wasted land -- Toward a collapse of our society -- Processes within the human population -- What is overpopulation? -- Bursting out of Eden -- Urbanization -- Migration -- The spread of diseases -- The dynamic structure of society -- Processes within the global society -- From a concrete to an abstract world -- The energy and information content of society -- Can our world population collapse? -- The persistence of mankind -- Another future for our human world? -- The road we took, and the way forward -- The emperor's new clothes ER -