Overshoot Catton William R.
Overshoot Catton William R. Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. And…
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Overshoot Catton William R.
Our day-to-day experiences over the past decade have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous appetite for energy, natural resources, and consumer goods. And for years some biologists have warned us of the direct correlation between scarcity and population growth. Even utility and oil companies now promote conservation in the face of demands for dwindling energy reserves.
He contradicts those scientists, engineers, and technocrats who continue to write optimistically about energy alternatives. These scientists see an appalling future riding the tidal wave of a worldwide growth of population and technology.A calm but unflinching realist, Catton suggests that we cannot stop this wave - for we have already overshot the Earth's capacity to support so huge a load. Catton asserts that the technological panaceas proposed by those who would harvest from the seas,
Overshoot Catton William R.