(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Ugo Bardi
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1972, a book changed the world. The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now? In “The Limits to Growth”, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the researchers developed scenarios to map out...
2) Extracted: how the quest for mineral wealth is plundering the planet : a report to the Club of Rome
Author
Physical Desc
xviii, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As we dig, drill, and excavate to unearth the planet's mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams, and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being squandered in just centuries--or sometimes just decades. Will there come a time when we actually run out of minerals? Debates already soar over how we are going to obtain energy without oil, coal, and...
3) Hot money
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Confused by the foundations of the economy, stocks, derivatives, cost of energy, and taxes? Untangle the complicated realities of the global financial system and its profound relationship to government, politics, and climate change with the help of international experts and all the humor of a New Yorker cartoon.