Capitalism and environmental collapse
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface to the English Edition -- Reference -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: The Convergence of Environmental Crises -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Great Inversion and the Limits of Environmental Awareness -- 1.2 An Ongoing Change in the Nature of the State: The...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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2020
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| Schlagworte: | Environmental degradation Capitalism Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (463 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Foreword -- Preface to the English Edition -- Reference -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: The Convergence of Environmental Crises -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Great Inversion and the Limits of Environmental Awareness -- 1.2 An Ongoing Change in the Nature of the State: The "State-Corporation" -- 1.3 The Regression of Multilateralism -- 1.4 From Rio+20 to the Present -- 1.5 Natural Reserves and Horror Vacui -- 1.6 Unsustainability and the Increasing Severity of Environmental Crises -- 1.7 The Phoenix That Turned into a Chicken -- 1.8 "What Were We Thinking?", Denial, and Self-Deception -- 1.9 The Goal and the Two Central Arguments of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Decrease and Degradation of Forests -- 2.1 We Can't Live Without Forests -- 2.2 The Upward Curve of Deforestation (1800-2019) -- 2.3 Acceleration -- 2.4 Global Forest Watch (GFW) -- 2.5 Boreal Forests -- 2.6 Deforestation Accelerates in the Tropics -- 2.7 Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) -- 2.8 Brazil (1970-2019): The Most Fulminating Ecocide Ever Perpetrated by the Human Species -- 2.9 The Cerrado Might Disappear by 2030 -- 2.10 Amazon: The Other Ecocide -- 2.11 The Military Catastrophe -- 2.12 The End of the World Machine -- 2.13 Tipping Point: Forest Dieback -- 2.14 Cavitation or Plant Embolism: The Threshold of Hydraulic Failure -- 2.15 Last Century of the Rainforests -- 2.16 The Socio-environmental Cancer of Deforestation -- References -- Chapter 3: Water and Soil -- 3.1 Decline of Water Resources -- 3.1.1 Intensification of Water Scarcity on a Global Scale -- 3.1.2 The Impact of Climate Change -- 3.2 Rivers, Lakes, and Reservoirs -- 3.2.1 Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh -- 3.2.2 Brazil, Mexico, and the USA -- 3.2.3 Middle East and Central Asia -- 3.2.4 "Water: China's Achilles Heel" -- 3.2.5 Degradation and Death of Lakes. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (463 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783030475277 3030475271 9783030475260 3030475263 |