The big green divide

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3026, 2015, pág. 26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pearce talks about how to best protect the nature. The planet has no fixed carrying capacity because technology is not fixed. Neolithic toolmaking and the first farmers transformed how many humans the planet could support. And while the ecomodernists agree that the industrial revolution pushed humans' relationship with natural resources off balance, they say the way to restore it is by embracing technology not rejecting it. Luckily the advances humans need to do this are available. They know how to massively reduce their ecological footprint, through the use of low-carbon energy technologies, including nuclear, as well as through high-tech precision farming and materials recycling. In most of the rich countries of the world they have reached peak stuff. They require much less land, nitrogen fertilizer and water to grow every tonne of food. They consume less metal and other materials, while recycling more. Even their carbon emissions are falling.