May 2012

Rob Hengeveld: we must curb the precipitous path towards a wasted world – quickly

VU University emeritus professor of Nature Conservation Rob Hengeveld just published his book “Wasted World” with The University of Chicago Press. In this book, which received praise from Bill McKibben, Gretchen Daily, Dan Simberloff and David Goodall, Hengeveld reveals how a long history of human consumption has depleted natural resources and left us drowning in waste. Rather than analysing each of the current environmental problems separately (climate change, energy shortage, food shortage, salinization, deforestation, environmental pollution), Rob provides a comprehensive overview of all of them and shows how they are interconnected and relate to a single underlying cause: we are with too many people on this world.

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