Entropy: Into the Greenhouse WorldFor the first time Entropy has been completely revised and updated to include a new subtitle which reflects the expanded focus on the greenhouse effect--the largest crisis ever to face mankind. |
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Contents
Into the Greenhouse World | 3 |
Deluge and Drought | 10 |
World Views | 19 |
Copyright | |
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able According activity agricultural already American amount areas available energy base become begin build cause century comes complex consumer continue costs created crisis culture disorder dissipated earth economic effect efficiency energy environment energy flow entire Entropy Law environment example existing experience fact forced fuel future global greater greenhouse growth heat human increased individual industrial institutions kind land less limits living maintain major material matter means mechanical million move nature needs nonrenewable nuclear once organism paradigm past percent physical planet plants pollution population problem production progress recycling remain Report result second law social society solar sources thermodynamics things Third tion Today transforming transition turn United universe urban warming waste world view York
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| Title | Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World Bantam new age books New Age Book New Age Series ˜Aœ Bantam trade paperback |
| Authors | Jeremy Rifkin, Ted Howard |
| Contributor | Ted Howard |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Nov 28, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0553347179, 9780553347173 |
| Length | 354 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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