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Many people believe that globalization and its key components have made matters worse for humanity and the environment. Indur M. Goklany exposes this as a complete myth and challenges people to consider how much worse the world would be without them. Goklany confronts foes of globalization and demonstrates that economic growth, technological change and free trade helped to power a "cycle of progress" that in the last two centuries enabled unprecedented...
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This book confronts the planetary emergency produced by the accelerated ecological devastation of the last half-century. The human species is in a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions that make a healthy existence possible. This task requires us to reconsider not only the type of energy that we use, but also the institutions, the technology, and the social relationships that determine what is produced,...
43) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
44) Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, And Deception To Keep You Misinformed
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Liars-Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits-as well as your tax dollars and your liberties-with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda, the...
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Dans le mode de vie impérial qui est le ntre, à ce stade avancé du capitalisme marqué par l'impératif de la croissance, les moindres détails du quotidien, la construction de notre identité comme société et comme individus, tout repose sur la constitution d'un ailleurs o nos entreprises exploitent la force de travail comme elles ne peuvent le faire ici, et o nous faisons disparaître nos déchets et fructifier nos surplus.
Cette dynamique...
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When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative...
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In pursuit of economic growth, the United States and other developed countries are testing the tolerance of the natural world. The results include the loss of valuable ecosystems, global climate change, and the degradation of the planet's ability to support life. Journalist William Becker argues that our mission in the 21st century should be to fix what we have broken in the natural world and to enlist healthy ecosystems in our pursuit of economic...
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The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth's climate system is far more sensitive to human activities...
49) Fracktured
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Fracktured is a political novel that examines the fractured nature of politics in our contemporary environment. In this fictional account based on facts the author examines the toxic underbelly of not only our political system but the decision-making processes that reward avoidance of confrontation through the lenses of three individuals; the politician, his wife, and an enterprising madam. The intertwining of their lives reflects the difficulties...
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The "precautionary principle" - the environmental version of the admonition first, do no harm - is now enshrined in numerous international environmental agreements including treaties addressing global warming, biological diversity, and various pollutants. Some environmentalists have invoked this principle to justify policies to control, if not ban, any technology that cannot be proven to cause no harm. In this innovative book, Goklany shows that the...
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As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it. While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling fossil fuel supplies, leading climate researcher Dr. Roy...
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Con frecuencia, la educación ambiental se ha asociado a los valores, aunque en muchos casos las distintas partes interesadas no tengan claridad sobre cuáles, por qué se incluyen unos y no otros o las implicaciones prácticas de asumir algunos de ellos. Para responder a tales cuestiones, este libro se ocupa del problema asociado a los valores bioéticos presentados tácitamente en la política nacional de educación ambiental en Colombia, en la...
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They blazed new trails for people seeking a better world. These are their stories.
In 1970, a group of young people chose to take their values to work at a new sort of profession. They formed the Public Interest Research Group, a nonpartisan, nonprofit voice for consumers, taxpayers, open and honest government, and the environment.
Working under the renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader, they helped prove it's possible to make real and lasting improvements...
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The Pandemials are the young people who will be between the ages of 10 and 26 after the pandemic is over. They will be faced with societies devastated by inequality, the end of meritocracy, loneliness, digital automation, the depletion of natural resources and a myriad of environmental crises that will deeply affect life on our planet.
In addition to lacking the economic prosperity enjoyed by their parents –which for example granted them access...
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Los Pandemials son los jóvenes que una vez superada la pandemia tendrán entre 10 y 26 años. Encontrarán sociedades marcadas por la inequidad, el fin de la meritocracia, la soledad, el automatismo digital, el agotamiento de recursos naturales, y diversas crisis ambientales que afectarán la vida en el planeta.
El covid-19 no solo agrava este panorama, que ya se perfilaba difícil de solucionar antes de la Crisis del 2020. Las simetrías puestas...
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Cada vez se sabe más sobre los chimpancés, los bonobos, los gorilas y los orangutanes, y se ve más claramente lo mucho que se parecen a los niños humanos de dos a tres años. Gracias a organizaciones como Proyecto Gran Simio, son más los países que les dan una protección legal especial, hay más juristas dispuestos a defender los derechos de los simios, más peticiones de «habeas corpus» y más juicios en los que se debate la posible personalidad...
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel our economy and protect our national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from American universities that offer a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure national energy system. Drawing from the efforts of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and other leading university research centers, the book describes...
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A guided tour of a revolution in the making that promises to change our lives
Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look...
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Este libro pretende dar una mirada sobre el proceso general que da origen a los servicios ambientales, desde su inicio solar y su incidencia en la biodiversidad, en el bienestar humano y en los flujos de energía de los ecosistemas. Enfatiza en la relación entre el hombre y el agua, exponiendo ideas fundamentales en la gestión hídrica y la calidad hidroecológica como herramienta para la toma de decisiones y la formulación de políticas públicas....
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