RDN Richard D. NorthWer bezahlt die Rechnung?Die wirklichen Kosten unseres Wohlstands
The Real Cost - Eine Ökologie des modernen Menschen Von Helga Wingert: Übersetzung, Bearbeitung, Einleitung 1986 bei Chatto & Windus mit 190 Seiten 1988 im Peter-Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal |
1986 250 Seiten mit Illu. DNB.Autor *1946 in Britain DNB.Buch qwant Buch Bing.Buch Goog.Buch RichardDNorth.com Home - "Real Cost" bei Contact detopia N.htm Die heimlichen Kosten des Fortschritts /Leipert-1989 Widener-1970 Kein Platz für Menschen |
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Inhalt Einleitung zur deutschen Ausgabe (7-8) von Helga Wingert Einleitung vom Autor (9-10) Wer bezahlt die Rechnung für… 1 Geburten: Chancen und Risiken (11) 2 Arbeitsplätze: Eine Herausforderung für alle (19) 3 Brot: Ein Grundnahrungsmittel von biblischer Herkunft (30) 4 Tee: Blätter zwischen Reichtum und Armut (38) 5 Kaffee: Ein Genuß und seine Opfer (44) 6 Zucker: Eine bittersüße Ernte (55) 7 Brausegetränke: Der sprudelnde Markt (63) 8 Bananen: Der fruchtige Senkrechtstarter (67)
9 Erdnüsse: Öle und Wüsten (71) Literaturliste (246) Nützliche Adressen (247)
Autor worked for "The Independent" newspaper as its first environment correspondent (1986-1990) and then as environmental columnist for "The Sunday Times" (1990-1992). His book, "Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress" (Manchester University Press, 1995) was widely regarded as a renunciation of his green ideals. He now works with the free-market thinktank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (as media fellow) and with the conservative Social Affairs Unit, where he blogs on art, film and social issues.
How will the world feed and care for the 10 billion people who are likely to be alive within a couple of generations? In this major re-evaluation of global environmental questions, Richard D. North provides a controversial answer: mankind should be able to cope rather well. He argues that the enlightenment ideal of progress is still possible, and that we can nurture and value all human life whilst taking care of the natural world. North offers a skilful examination of the prospects for food, energy and materials provision for the human race, both present and future. In a series of case studies he reinterprets the major contemporary environmental issues, such as feeding the growing global population, energy production, global warming, pollution, the protection of biodiversity and green consumerism. The Braer disaster, Camelford, the chlorine industry, Greenpeace, the American rangelands and spotted owl controversies, and rainforest deforestation are among the issues and incidents which come under his critical gaze. Hundreds of wide-ranging references root the book's arguments in fact, not just in theory. The message is radical, fresh and ultimately optimistic: an antidote to what has become the pessimistic Green orthodoxy. Richard D. North draws on many years of broadsheet environmental journalism to rekindle the environment and development debate. |
Life on a modern planet
A manifesto for progress
by Richard D. North
Manchester University Press, 1995 - 326 Seiten