One Planet Is Enough: Tackling Climate Change and by Rune Westergård

By Rune Westergård

The current ebook deals a compelling cartoon of the way technological advances have formed humankind’s evolution and the way they could free up how one can wrestle weather switch and environmental threats. It additionally finds new views on weather swap and sustainable improvement by means of harnessing technology.

Given today’s stipulations, just a homeless vegan may well in attaining a sustainable ecological footprint. in fact, it'd be most unlikely, or even damaging, to aim to avoid wasting the planet via discontinuing intake. it'll disrupt evolution and threaten the using forces of the know-how that's our wish for battling weather switch and environmental threats within the future.

This is the opinion of Rune Westergård, engineer, entrepreneur, and environmental debater, with a number of many years of expertise from the sector of environmental and effort expertise. He demanding situations many proven truths on intake and sustainability and demonstrates how and why they're fallacious. From his viewpoint, either endured international development and elevated welfare are fullyyt attainable in the ecological obstacles of our planet. after we discover ways to placed expertise to our greatest virtue, one planet may be enough.

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