Shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.
Materials support the excellent lifestyle we have in the West. We make them efficiently, but they’re still environmentally harmful. Production of just five materials steel, aluminium, paper, plastics, cement accounts for 55% of industrial emissions. And demand for materials will double by 2050. Can we continue to live well but use less materials? So far people have considered the problem with only one eye open, hoping for a magic solution (such as carbon capture and storage).
But with both eyes open we have a whole new set of options. Rather than making more materials, we can use them more wisely
– with less material, keeping them for longer, re-using their parts and more. These options make a huge difference: we really could set up our children with a more sustainable life, without compromising our own.
- ISBN10 1906860076
- ISBN13 9781906860073
- Publish Date 24 November 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 November 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint UIT Cambridge LTD
- Edition first edition, replaced with second edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English