Sustainability: All That Matters

Sustainability: All That Matters
ISBN-10
1444174428
ISBN-13
9781444174427
Series
Sustainability
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2012-11-30
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Author
Chris Goodall

Description

Building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has ever faced. Prosperity has been created by ruthless and ill-disciplined mining of the world's resources, compounded by a cavalier disregard for the implications of pollution from industrial and agricultural processes. Today's generation has borrowed from the future by grabbing prosperity now and imposing the cost on the next generation. In this startling and informative book, which will appeal to both students and general readers, award-winning writer Chris Goodall provides a coherent new explanation of what sustainability actually is. Goodall then goes onto explore nine key sustainability challenges, applying the theory of sustainability to look at food, travel, clothing, electricity, heating and cooling, paper and cardboard, construction, consumer electronics, and air travel.

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