- O la capra o i cavoli
- Nicolò Bellanca, Luca Pardi
Risorse e popolazione umana
- Nicolò Bellanca
- Luca Pardi
- © 2020 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2.06
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.
- Keywords:
- Fossil fuels,
- resource peak,
- EROI,
- resource depletion,
- technology,
- extractivism,
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3809-3455
CNR-IPCF, Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6870-1490
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Risorse e popolazione umana
Authors
Nicolò Bellanca, Luca Pardi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2.06
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
O la capra o i cavoli
Book Subtitle
La biosfera, l’economia e il futuro da inventare
Authors
Nicolò Bellanca, Luca Pardi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
210
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-195-2
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978-88-5518-194-5
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978-88-5518-195-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919