Extraction to Extinction (eBook)

Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources

David Howe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
288 Seiten
Saraband (Verlag)
978-1-913393-29-8 (ISBN)

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Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or the remains of a long-extinct volcano.Humanity's ability to fashion nature to its own ends is by no means a new phenomenon.Silica-rich rocks have been flint-knapped by Stone Age people, transformed into stained glass in medieval times, and made into silicon chips for computers in the Digital Age.Our trick of turning rocks rich in malachite and chalcopyrite into copper has taken us from Bronze Age Minoan vases to the wiring that powers modern-day machinery.Today, we mine, quarry, pump, cut, blast and crush the Earth's resources at an unprecedented rate. We shift many times more rock, soil and sediment each year than the world's rivers and glaciers, wind and rain combined. Plastics alone now weigh twice as much as all the marine and terrestrial animals around the globe. We have become a dominant, even dangerous, force on the planet.InEXTRACTION TO EXTINCTION, David Howe traces our environmental impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff has pushed the planet to its limit. And he considers the question: what does the future look likefor our depleted world?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Anthropocene • best books on climate change • carbon • Climate • climate chaos • climate crisis • climate emergency • climate, geology, COP 26, COP-26, best books on climate change, environment, climate crisis, geography, earth, planet, climate emergency, anthropocene, green, rocks, fossil fuels, consumer culture, waste, carbon, deforestation, earth science, oceans, climate chaos, climate non-fiction, conservation, materials science, rare earth materials, shortages, endangered, scarcity, gaia, overconsumption, coal, oil, plastic, waste, landfill, sand, concrete, construction, population studies, overpopulation, futurology, • climate non-fictioN • coal • Concrete • conservation • Construction • Consumer Culture • COP 26 • COP-26 • deforestation • earth • earth science • endangered • Environment • Fossil Fuels • futurology, future • gaia • Geography • Geology • Green • Landfill • Materials Science • Oceans • Oil • Overconsumption • overpopulation • Planet • Plastic • Population Studies • rare earth materials • Rocks • Sand • Scarcity • shortages • Waste
• ISBN-10: 1-913393-29-1 / 1913393291
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913393-29-8 / 9781913393298