Preface |
Selling Our Future / 1: |
Food: The 'Weak Link |
The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity |
Our Global Ponzi Economy |
Mounting Stresses, failing States |
Plan B-A Plan to Save Civilization |
The Challenges / I: |
Population Pressure: Land and Water / 2: |
Civilization's Foundation Eroding |
Water Tables Palling |
Farmers Losing Water to Cities |
Land and Water Conflicts |
Cars and People Compete for Grain |
The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees |
Climate Change and the Energy Transition / 3: |
Rising Temperature and Its Effects |
Melting Ice, Rising Seas |
Melting Glaciers, Shrinking Harvests |
Rising Temperatures, Falling Yields |
The Decline of Oil and Coal |
A Challenge Without Precedent |
The Response / II: |
Stabilizing Climate: An Energy Efficiency Revolution / 4: |
A Revolution in Lighting Technology |
Energy-Efficient Appliances |
Zero-Carbon Buildings |
Electrifying the Trans-port System |
A New Materials Economy |
Smarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers |
The Energy Savings Potential |
Stabilizing Climate: Shifting to Renewable Energy / 5: |
Turning to the Wind |
Solar Cells and Thermal Collectors |
Energy from the Earth |
Plant-Based Sources of Energy |
Hydropower: Rivers, Tides, and Waves |
The World Energy Economy of 2020 |
Designing Cities for People / 6: |
The Ecology of Cities |
Redesigning Urban Transport |
The Return of Bicycles |
Reducing Urban Water Use |
Farming in the City |
Upgrading Squatter Settlements |
Cities for People |
Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population / 7: |
Educating Everyone |
Toward a Healthy Future |
Stabilizing Population |
Rescuing Failing States |
A Poverty Eradication Agenda and Budget |
Restoring the Earth / 8: |
Protecting and Restoring Forests |
Planting Trees to Sequester Carbon |
Conserving and Rebuilding Soils |
Regenerating Fisheries |
Protecting Plant and Animal Diversity |
The Earth Restoration Budget |
Feeding Eight Billion People Well / 9: |
Raising Land Productivity |
Raising Water Productivity |
Producing Protein More Efficiently |
The Localization of Agriculture |
Strategic Reductions in Demand |
Action on Many Fronts |
The Great Mobilization / III: |
Can We Mobilize Fast Enough? / 10: |
Shifting Taxes and Subsidies |
Coal: The Beginning of the End |
Stabilizing Climate |
Three Models of Social Change |
A Wartime Mobilization |
Mobilizing to Save Civilization |
What You and I Can Do |
Notes |
Index |
Acknowledgments |
About the Author |
Food: The Weak Link |
Mounting Stresses, Failing States |
Water Tables Falling |
Electrifying the Transport System |