Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
How, he asks, can we extract from the Earth's resources what we need for the prosperity, well-being, and dignity of current and future generations of billions of people without exhausting or polluting those resources? Written in clear, jargon-free prose, Science for a Green New Deal is a realistic and optimistic look at how we can attain a more sustainable, prosperous, and just future.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781421444352
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=29138931
DDC:
333.72
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Muddling or Dealing? -- Muddling through the Eras -- The Anthropocene: When the Human Domain Clearly Enveloped the Earth -- Harnessing Science -- The Invisible Hand and Sleight of Hand to Thwart Planning -- Convergence for Green New Deal Thinking -- 2 No Tree, No Bee, No Honey, No Money -- Money Doesn't Grow on Trees (or Does It?) -- No Wealth, No Health, No Wellness, No Justice -- Co-production of Knowledge -- Recommendations -- 3 Are There Too Few or Too Many People? -- How Many Babies Will Our Babies Have? -- A Dated View from the White Old Deal -- Environmental Refugees -- We Know How to Slow Population Growth, but . . . -- Recommendations -- 4 Manure Happens: The Consequences of Feeding Over Seven Billion Human Omnivores -- Waste or Resource? -- Carrots and Sticks for Farmers -- Principles of Regenerative Agriculture -- How Productive Agriculture Can Help Conserve Forests -- Incentives for Regenerative Agriculture -- Not Conflating Regenerative Agriculture and Organic Agriculture -- We Are What We Eat, and So Is Our Environmental Impact -- Less Food Waste Happens -- Habit Change Happens -- Recommendations -- 5 Climate Change Viewed by a Skeptic at Heart -- From Healthy Skepticism to Scholarly Consensus: A Journey of Scientific Integrity -- What Climate Change and Pandemics Have in Common -- When Worldviews Lead to Denialism -- A COVID Consensus: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Mask, No Service -- Renewable Energy: A Journey from Pie-in-the Sky Prospects to Mainstream Economics -- The Four Pillars of Deep Decarbonization -- Forests Are a Big Part of the Solution Too -- Even Renewables Have Drawbacks -- Batteries Are the New Oil -- Powering with Willpower -- Recommendations -- 6 The Luddites Had It Half-Right, but the Other Half Could Be Great News.
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The Robot in the Coal Mine -- How Many Farmers Does It Take to Feed Us? -- Can Renewables and the GND Bring Back Better Jobs? -- Access to Education -- Pathways to Smart Diversified Employment -- Rural Internetization Is to a GND as Rural Electrification Was to Roosevelt's New Deal -- The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Recommendations -- 7 There's a Great Future in Plastics Circular Economies -- Hakuna Matata -- Hakuna Mfuko wa Plastiki -- Design Is the First Signal of Human Intention -- A Renewables Economy Must Also Be Circular -- Green Capitalism and the Little Engine That Could -- Greenwashing: "Hypocrisy Is the First Step to Real Change -- Bounding Unbound Capitalism -- Recommendations -- 8 Whither the Academy? A Horse of a Different Color? -- Investment in Science Always Pays, but . . . -- Who Holds the Reins? -- Moving the Needle: Redefining Scientific Misconduct -- Investment in Science Pays -- Investment in Inclusive Science Pays More -- Recommendations -- 9 "And So, I'm Going to Work Tomorrow -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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