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Introduction | p. ix |
Natural Processes | p. 1 |
The Nature of Life: Making Waste | p. 3 |
Nature Goes in Cycles | p. 15 |
Ongoing Processes in the Human Population | p. 23 |
Population Growth and its Limitations | p. 25 |
The Growing Problem of Mankind | p. 27 |
Population Growth and Agricultural Production | p. 28 |
Population Growth and Industrial Production | p. 47 |
Agribusiness and Corporate States | p. 57 |
Exhausting and Wasting Our Resources | p. 71 |
Peak Oil and Beyond | p. 72 |
Limited Resources | p. 86 |
Man-Made Waste | p. 94 |
When It's Gone, It's Gone | p. 106 |
Exhausting and Wasting Our Environment | p. 121 |
Our Freshwater is Running Out! | p. 122 |
Polluting the Air and Warming Our Climate | p. 136 |
Deforestation and Its Consequences | p. 153 |
The Loss of Biodiversity | p. 163 |
Wasted Land | p. 173 |
Toward a Collapse of Our Society? | p. 185 |
Processes within the Human Population | p. 187 |
What is Overpopulation? | p. 188 |
Bursting Out of Eden | p. 202 |
Urbanization | p. 214 |
Migration | p. 220 |
The Spread of Diseases | p. 229 |
The Dynamic Structure of Society | p. 241 |
Processes within the Global Society | p. 253 |
From a Concrete to an Abstract World | p. 254 |
The Energy and Information Content of Society | p. 264 |
Can Our World Population Collapse? | p. 278 |
The Persistence of Mankind | p. 293 |
Another Future for Our Human World? | p. 295 |
The Road We Took, and the Way Forward | p. 296 |
Epilogue. The Emperor's New Clothes | p. 307 |
About the Author | p. 313 |
Acknowledgments | p. 315 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 317 |
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