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2030, the coming tumult [electronic resource] : unlimited growth on a finite planet / Richard M. Mosey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mosey, Richard M., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global environmental change.
- Natural resources--Management.
- Natural resources.
- Environmental degradation.
- Overpopulation.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The short-term benefits of unlimited growth are driving the American economic and social model right off a cliff. The author shows how corporations drown out scientists and global elites prosper during economic collapse. He explores the role of monotheistic religions in abetting population growth and downplaying human agency in the current unprecedented crisis and charts the effects of increasing poverty, population migration, and social tension.
- Contents:
- Water
- Oceans
- Climate change
- Population
- Business as usual
- Deniers
- Climate change, American history, and the economic meltdown.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-87586-746-4
- OCLC:
- 457053674
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