| Description |
xii, 219 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, "Suggested Reading" list (p. 209-212), and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Health care's malignant growth -- "If they build it, we'll fill it" -- An unhealthy industry -- Growing pains -- Those bad apples -- Green health care? -- The model wealth creator -- 2. Feeling OK? Are you sure? -- Disease mongering -- Direct-to-patient, direct-to-doctor -- 3. Side effects may be severe -- Colorful India -- Side effects -- Cracking down? -- 4. Swallowing the Earth whole -- Caution : this diet is not for everyone -- Appearances and reality -- All the fish in the sea -- A self-fattening industry -- 5. "Agroterrorists" can take a vacation -- The industrialized farm economy -- Hazards of food production -- Who wants to take away our freedom? -- 6. Hunger for natural gas -- Nitrogen, human existence, and economic logic -- Gas : so good it's bad -- Coal : a lousy plan B -- Full Jacuzzis, empty stomachs -- Nitrogen : too little, too much -- Needs and wants -- 7. Down-to-a-trickle economics -- Dimming, global and local -- Dark horizon -- The 66,000-lb gorilla in the living room -- 8. Supernatural food -- Goliath junior vs. Goliath senior -- Shop where you work? -- Industrial-strength organic -- Other routes -- A gaping hole -- 9. The world is your kitchen -- Some of the planet's toughest little molecules -- Turning up the heat on Teflon -- Chemical stewardship -- Paths of least resistance -- The chemical amnesty program -- 10. Political impossibility vs. biological impossibility -- Three big books -- Efficiency -- The European mirage -- Different kinds of impossibility -- Notes -- Suggested reading -- Index. |
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Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects.
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Food industry and trade -- Economic aspects.
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Medical care -- Environmental aspects.
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Medical economics.
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Corporations -- Environmental aspects.
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Industrialization -- Environmental aspects.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Environmental aspects.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects.
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Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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| ISBN |
0745327400 (pbk.) |
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9780745327419 |
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0745327419 |
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9780745327402 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 11672128 |
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AU@ 000043073721 |
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