[PDF.01rs] The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

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 | #496874 in Books |  2014-09-09 |  2014-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x1.13 x6.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic book on how humans and the environment have interacted ...|By Customer|Fantastic book on how humans and the environment have interacted through history. DeFries description of the "Hatchet / Ratchet" cycle was incredibly interesting. Humans are constantly altering the world around us to better suit our needs and we are more often than not faced with the consequences| ||"Forget farm to table; this history shows that the food on your plate has a history stretching back to the dawn of the species."|--Emma Marris, author of "Rambunctious Garden"|

|"An admirable history of human ingenuity that does not claim it will o

Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. "The Big Ratchet" is the story of how it happened, of the ratchetsthe technologies and innovations, big and smallthat propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket.
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You easily download any file type for your device.The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis   |  Ruth DeFries. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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