Chapter Risorse e popolazione umana

The history of the genus Homo, and of the sapiens species in particular, is different from that of other species due to the extreme importance of cultural evolution compared to biological evolution. But from the discovery of how to use fire and generate it, up to the invention of the steam engine, m...

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Autores principales: Bellanca, Nicolò, Pardi, Luca
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description The history of the genus Homo, and of the sapiens species in particular, is different from that of other species due to the extreme importance of cultural evolution compared to biological evolution. But from the discovery of how to use fire and generate it, up to the invention of the steam engine, man essentially lives, like the other organisms of the biosphere, on the energy flow guaranteed by solar radiation. With the encounter between machines and fossil fuels and the entry into the era of engines, the rules of the game change radically, and the activities of Homo sapiens change in extent and intensity, in such a way as to progressively reduce the living space of all other animal and plant species, except for the allied and commensal ones. The global industrialized society arising from the meeting between machines and fossil sources is presently facing two fundamental difficulties: the gradual saturation of terrestrial ecosystems with the waste of social and economic metabolism, and the finiteness of fossil energy sources, which are not easy replacement due to their special chemical-physical properties.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-828962022-06-02T04:20:08Z Chapter Risorse e popolazione umana Bellanca, Nicolò Pardi, Luca Fossil fuels resource peak EROI resource depletion technology extractivism The history of the genus Homo, and of the sapiens species in particular, is different from that of other species due to the extreme importance of cultural evolution compared to biological evolution. But from the discovery of how to use fire and generate it, up to the invention of the steam engine, man essentially lives, like the other organisms of the biosphere, on the energy flow guaranteed by solar radiation. With the encounter between machines and fossil fuels and the entry into the era of engines, the rules of the game change radically, and the activities of Homo sapiens change in extent and intensity, in such a way as to progressively reduce the living space of all other animal and plant species, except for the allied and commensal ones. The global industrialized society arising from the meeting between machines and fossil sources is presently facing two fundamental difficulties: the gradual saturation of terrestrial ecosystems with the waste of social and economic metabolism, and the finiteness of fossil energy sources, which are not easy replacement due to their special chemical-physical properties. 2022-06-02T04:20:07Z 2022-06-02T04:20:07Z 2022-06-01T12:16:55Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855181952_412 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56229 9788855181952 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82896 ita Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56229/1/15119.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2.06 10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2.06 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855181952 25 Florence open access
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EROI
resource depletion
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extractivism
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Chapter Risorse e popolazione umana
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resource peak
EROI
resource depletion
technology
extractivism
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EROI
resource depletion
technology
extractivism
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