| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 349 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The rise of innovation -- The incredible present -- Running out of steam -- Peak everything? -- Greenhouse earth -- End of the party? -- The first energy technology -- The transformer -- The substitute -- The reducer -- The recycler -- The multiplier -- Investing in ideas -- The flaw in the market -- Market solutions -- The unthinkable : here there be dragons -- The unthinkable : climate engineering -- Greener than green -- The decoupler -- Of mouths and minds -- Easy way, hard way. |
| Summary |
Climate change. Finite fossil fuels. Fresh water depletion. Rising commodity prices. Ocean acidification. Overpopulation. Deforestation. Feeding the world's billions. We're beset by an array of natural resource and environmental challenges. They pose a tremendous risk to human prosperity, to world peace, and to the planet itself. Yet, if we act, these problems are addressable. Throughout history we've overcome similar problems, but only when we've focused our energies on innovation. For the most valuable resource we have isn't oil, water, gold, or land - it's our stockpile of useful ideas, and our continually growing capacity to expand them. In this remarkable book, Ramez Naam charts a course to supercharge innovation - by changing the rules of our economy - that can lead the whole world to greater wealth and human well-being, even as we dodge looming resource crunches and environmental disasters and reduce our impact on the planet. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Renewable natural resources.
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Renewable natural resources. |
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Natural resources.
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Natural resources. |
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Sustainable development.
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Sustainable development. |
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Conservation of natural resources.
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Conservation of natural resources. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Naam, Ramez. Infinite resource. Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, ©2013 9781611682557 (DLC) 2012026803 (OCoLC)811776418 |
| ISBN |
1611683769 (electronic book) |
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9781611683769 (electronic book) |
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9781611682557 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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161168255X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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