The Third Revolution: Environment, Population and a Sustainable WorldHarrison argues that population growth, rising consumption and damaging technologies have combined to bring on the biggest environmental crisis in human history. Just as crisis spurred the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, so it may be a third revolution that is needed to achieve sustainable development. Harrison provides a bulletin on the state of the planet and the process of destruction, and a blueprint for the third revolution. |
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the great debate | 7 |
three billion years of environmental crisis | 21 |
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