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World on fire : humans, animals, and the future of the planet / Mark Rowlands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowlands, Mark, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climate change mitigation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'World on Fire' provides readers with the opportunity to ponder how the highly topical issues of climate, extinction, and disease relate to issues in their personal lives. It presents a new theoretical framework based on biomass and energy for thinking about animals and their role in planetary health and inspires strong reader engagement through its straightforward yet provocative conclusion: no longer eating animals as a solution.
- Contents:
- Animals, energy, land : an overview
- Good morning, Atlantis!
- Welcome to Venus?
- The fire : energy, civilization and collapse
- Salvation technologies?
- The end of meat
- Our forest future?
- The great dying
- The business reallocation program
- Pale horse
- One hundred years of ineptitude
- The wildwood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-754191-7
- 0-19-754192-5
- 0-19-754190-9
- OCLC:
- 1251444427
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