Brave Green World: How Science Can Save Our Planet

Brave Green World: How Science Can Save Our Planet
ISBN-10
0262044463
ISBN-13
9780262044462
Category
Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2021-03-30
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Chris Forman, Claire Asher

Description

How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution. In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.

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