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Extraction to Extinction

- Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources
Af: David Howe Engelsk Paperback

Extraction to Extinction

- Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources
Af: David Howe Engelsk Paperback
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Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or the remains of a long-extinct volcano.

Humanity’s ability to fashion nature to its own ends is by no means a new phenomenon. Silica-rich rocks have been flint-knapped by Stone Age people, transformed into stained glass in medieval times, and made into silicon chips for computers in the Digital Age. Our trick of turning rocks rich in malachite and chalcopyrite into copper has taken us from Bronze Age Minoan vases to the wiring that powers modern-day machinery.

Today, we mine, quarry, pump, cut, blast and crush the Earth’s resources at an unprecedented rate. We shift many times more rock, soil and sediment each year than the world’s rivers and glaciers, wind and rain combined. Plastics alone now weigh twice as much as all the marine and terrestrial animals around the globe. We have become a dominant, even dangerous, force on the planet.

In EXTRACTION TO EXTINCTION, David Howe traces our environmental impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff has pushed the planet to its limit. And he considers the question: what does the future look like for our depleted world?

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Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or the remains of a long-extinct volcano.

Humanity’s ability to fashion nature to its own ends is by no means a new phenomenon. Silica-rich rocks have been flint-knapped by Stone Age people, transformed into stained glass in medieval times, and made into silicon chips for computers in the Digital Age. Our trick of turning rocks rich in malachite and chalcopyrite into copper has taken us from Bronze Age Minoan vases to the wiring that powers modern-day machinery.

Today, we mine, quarry, pump, cut, blast and crush the Earth’s resources at an unprecedented rate. We shift many times more rock, soil and sediment each year than the world’s rivers and glaciers, wind and rain combined. Plastics alone now weigh twice as much as all the marine and terrestrial animals around the globe. We have become a dominant, even dangerous, force on the planet.

In EXTRACTION TO EXTINCTION, David Howe traces our environmental impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff has pushed the planet to its limit. And he considers the question: what does the future look like for our depleted world?

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781913393274
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1913393275
Kategori: Bevaring af miljøet
Udg. Dato: 2 sep 2021
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Saraband
Oplagsdato: 2 sep 2021
Forfatter(e): David Howe
Forfatter(e) David Howe

Kategori Bevaring af miljøet

ISBN-13 9781913393274

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 198mm

Højde 127mm

Udg. Dato 2 sep 2021

Oplagsdato 2 sep 2021

Forlag Saraband

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