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Environmental economics—the study of residuals flow and its resultant impacts in the natural world.
Barry Field • Environmental Economics, An Introduction, 2024 Release
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8.10 Planetary Boundaries Source: J.
Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Anthropocene
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for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
In 2014, according to a former DOE official, a federal contractor in Los Alamos, having been told to pack the barrels with “inorganic kitty litter,” had scribbled down “an organic kitty litter.” The barrel with organic kitty litter in it had burst and spread waste inside the cavern. The site was closed for three years, significantly backing up nucl
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