Comments on: Book review – The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise (Second Edition)

By: Book review – The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:55:12 +0000

[…] (and, might I add, the shady sector of commodity traders), has allowed developed nations to smugly clean up their act at home by offshoring polluting forms of extraction and production to other continents. “The problem […]

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By: Book review – The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:44:01 +0000

[…] already highlighted this hypocritical contradiction in our attitude in The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise. Pitron here calls it “delocalised pollution”. While China does “the dirty work […]

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By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:29:30 +0000

[…] as all metals), they pass over the fact that materials cannot be endlessly recycled, requiring a constant input of virgin material. Third, waste can only be discharged at rates than can be assimilated by ecosystems, and those that […]

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By: Book review – A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:03:40 +0000

[…] a no-no . And though a circular economy is a step up from our linear system of produce-use-discard, you cannot endlessly recycle: a constant influx of virgin material is required. Not all metals can be economically recovered, […]

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By: Book review – More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – And What Happens Next | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:09:01 +0000

[…] underlying other examples is less clear and McAfee does not clarify this point. A major theme of The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise was that developed countries smugly claim to have cleaned up their act when in reality they have […]

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By: Book review – Ocean Recovery: A Sustainable Future for Global Fisheries? | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:42:53 +0000

[…] topic of displacement came up in my review of The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise, but it is such an important and overlooked aspect that I will bang on about it again here. Unless […]

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By: Book review – The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:17:11 +0000

[…] would you rather pay? The take-home message (one that I keep hammering home since my review of The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise) being, of course, that there is always a price to […]

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By: Book review – Energy: A Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Energy: A Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:50:23 +0000

[…] which he considers contradictory (understandably so, in my opinion – see also my review of The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise). But he somehow manages to tie this into a larger critique (which I am less sympathetic to) of […]

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By: Book review – The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:26:20 +0000

[…] the horns on several fronts. He highlights the typical hypocrisy of consumers (the central tenet of The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise). People oppose the polluting, destructive industries that extract raw materials from the natural […]

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By: Book review – Should We Control World Population? | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:25:38 +0000

[…] mother-of-all-problems where environmental degradation is concerned. As I argued in my review of The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise and is also recognized in this book, a large human population multiplies the impact of our […]

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