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The five horsemen of the modern world : climate, food, water, disease, and obesity /
In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can?t we make any progress in counteracting these problems, despite vast expenditures of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Our overheating, fraying planet
- Feeding a growing population : how, and with what kind of food?
- Water : not everywhere and not always fit to drink
- Chronic illness : rich or poor, few escape
- Obesity : the scourge of bad diets and sedentary habits
- Always more people and ever more elderly : caring and paying
- The technology fix : a way out?
- A volatile mix : public opinion, the media, and shaping policy
- Law and governance : managing our public planet and our private bodies
- Progress and its errant children : more is never enough
- The necessary coalition : social movements, legislatures, business.