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Courtney White

The Age of Consequences

A Chronicle of Concern and Hope

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Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon - soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas - at an unsustainable rate. We've burned up half the planet's known reserves of oil - one trillion barrels - in less than a century. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow.Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment the Age of Consequences—a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions- or inaction - have begun to raise unavoidable and difficult questions. How… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Berry, Wendell
  • ISBN: 978-1-61902-620-9
  • EAN: 9781619026209
  • Produktnummer: 18347967
  • Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.

Über den Autor


A former archaeologist and environmental activist, Courtney White is the co–found the Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to building bridges between ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists and others around practices that improve land health. Today, his conservation work focuses on building economic and ecological resilience on working landscapes, with a special emphasis on carbon ranching and the new agrarian movement. He is the author of Revolution on the Range: the Rise of a New Ranch in the American West and Grass, Soil, Hope: a Journey through Carbon Country. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.Wendell Berry is the author of over fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He lives with his wife in Kentucky.

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