WASTED WORLD: HOW OUR CONSUMPTION CHALLENGES THE PLANET
Book ID/图书代码： 13560013B65475
English Summary/英文概要： All systems produce waste as part of a cycle—bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled—though never completely. In Wasted World, Rob Hengeveld reveals how a long history of human consumption has left our world drowning in this waste.
This is a compelling and urgent work that traces the related histories of population growth and resource consumption. As Hengeveld explains, human life (and population growth) depends not only on mineral resources but also on energy. People first obtained energy from food and later supplemented this with energy from water, wind, and animals as one source after another fell short of our ever-growing needs. Finally, we turned to fossil energy, which generates atmospheric waste that is the key driver of global climate change. The effects of this climate change are already leading to food shortages and social collapse in some parts of the world. Because all of these problems are interconnected, Hengeveld argues strenuously that measures to counter individual problems cannot work. Instead, we need to tackle their common cause—our staggering population growth. While many scientists agree that population growth is one of the most critical issues pressuring the environment, Hengeveld is unique in his insistence on turning our attention to the waste such growth leaves in its wake and to the increasing demands of our global society.
A practical look at the sustainability of our planet from the perspective of a biologist whose expertise is in the abundances and distributions of species, Wasted World presents a fascinating picture of the whole process of using, wasting, and exhausting energy and material resources. And by elucidating the complexity of the causes of our current global state, Hengeveld offers us a way forward.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 废弃物作为循环的一部分在所有系统中都会产生，细菌、人类、内燃机甚至是大而复杂的城市都不例外。这些废弃物从某种程度上可以进行吸收、加工、循环利用，即使不是那么充分。在《地球生态危机》这本书中,Rob Hengeveld揭示了历史悠久的人类消耗如何使我们的世界淹没在这浪费中。
跟踪相关的人口增长和资源消耗的历史是一个引人注目的和紧急的工作。像 Hengeveld 解释的那样，人类生活和人口增长不仅取决于矿产资源也取决于能源。人们首先从食物获取能量,然后补充能量，水、风和动物作为能源低于我们的日益增长的需求。最后,我们转向化石能源，它是产生大气浪费导致全球气候变化的主要动力。这种气候变化的影响已经导致世界的一些地方粮食短缺和社会崩溃。因为所有这些问题是互相联系的,Hengeveld同时提出解决措施已经不是个人能够奏效的了。相反,我们需要解决一个普遍的原因————人口过快增长。同时许多科学家都认为人口增长对环境的压力是最主要的,但Hengeveld的想法很特别，他坚持把我们的注意力转向浪费的增长以及它导致我们对社会需求的增加。
从一位研究物种多样性和分布生物学专家的角度来看可持续发展的地球，《世界生态破坏》这本书呈现了一幅迷人的画面，从使用、浪费、耗尽能量和资源的全过程。明白了产生这种全球现状的复杂原因,Hengeveld提供我们一个前进的方向。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：书评
在这个详细研究,生物地理学家 Hengeveld(隶属于Alterra的生态系统研究中心,瓦赫宁根,荷兰)阐述了如何去协调我们的习惯会对这个星球未来影响的困境。通过跟踪我们从第一个繁殖细胞起源到大规模的全球经济的今天,Hengeveld描述所有的生命如何取决于能源而蓬勃发展。(《出版人周刊》)
About the Author/作者介绍： Rob Hengeveld就职于Alterra的生态系统研究中心,瓦赫宁根，荷兰，同时也是阿姆斯特丹自由大学动物生态部门的名誉教授。Rob Hengeveld is affiliated with the Centre for Ecosystem Studies of Alterra, Wageningen, the Netherlands, and was an honorary professor in the Department of Animal Ecology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
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