The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology

Thomas R. Degregori (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2002
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-8138-0869-7 (ISBN)

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Examines the economics of green consumerism, the reality of saving the environment, how historical cultures may have influenced environmental damage, and how being ecologically correct may have a more damaging effect on our environment. This book offers real-time strategies and alternatives to enhance our natural resources and our environment.

Always controversial, Thomas DeGregori has released another classic volume that is sure to inform, confound, and present new perspectives on todays environmental issues. This time he is taking on the environmentalists, naturalists, green consumerists, and those that hail the natural lifestyle as the healthy, politically correct thing to do. DeGregori examines the economics of green consumerism, the reality of saving the environment, how historical cultures may have influenced environmental damage, and how being ecologically correct may have a more damaging effect on our environment. Not just a regurgitation of theories; DeGregori offers real-time strategies and alternatives to enhance our natural resources and our environment in harmony with today’s modern technology. This is the book everyone will be talking about for years to come.

Thomas DeGregori is professor of economics, University of Houston. Dr. DeGregori is a much sought-after speaker, lecturer, and consultant both nationally and internationally.

Preface. Introduction.

1. Green Consumerism.

2. Racism, Elitism, and Environmentalism.

3. Life in the Bush.

4. Paradise in the Pacific?

5. The American Indian: The "Original Ecologist"?

6. Demystifying the Environment.

7. Technology and the "Primitive".

8. The Human Endeavor as a Creative Force.

9. Technology and the Promise of Modernity.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.12.2002
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-8138-0869-3 / 0813808693
ISBN-13	978-0-8138-0869-7 / 9780813808697
Zustand	Neuware