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Resilience Adaptation Sustainability : What Do We Now Mean By Future Progress
Paperback Edition: 1
Around 1970 the planet and our occupation of it was pretty much a situation of balance; the biospheric absorptive and recycling capacity coping with resource uptake and waste discard. Since then a doubled human mass and carbon gas overload has spawned the greenhouse effect that
has activated ice field melt, savannah extension, rainforest depletion, waste accumulation and species extinction. Resilience is a prevent-and-adapt advisory. It evokes limits for the growth-on-growth ideology and print money process. It provokes a births-deaths equilibrium, reduced fossil carbon consumption, rainforest restoration and waste recycling. It is about future proofing the next generation. Robert Riddell lives in Helensville, near Auckland.
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Featured in the 29 October 2014 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 212
Publisher : Independently Published
Publication date : 2014-10
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Earth Science, Conservation Of The Environment, Environmental Management, Sustainability