Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Options
Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Options
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能源、食品、环境：现实、神话、选择
DOI：
10.2307/633879
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发表时间：
1988
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通讯作者：
V. Smil
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作者：
S. Strickland;V. Smil
有没有可能保持可靠的能源供应，养活世界上不断增长的人口，并保护一个适合居住的全球环境？作者认为，不仅大众媒体，甚至许多科学家都以耸人听闻和不加批判的方式对待这些话题，因此，现在围绕这些严重但远非不可逾越的挑战的是大量的神话和谬论。在这本书中，作者对这些争论中涉及的许多主要问题进行了跨学科的研究。他用前三章详细探讨了在能源、食品和环境方面出现的主要争议。这些问题包括对欧佩克实力的错误估计，对人类营养基本需求的惊人无知，以及以前的环境危机往往以惊人的方式消失。最后，本文对最近关于未来全球前景的著作中提出的证据进行了权衡，试图为理解如何提供丰富的能源、充足的食物和适宜居住的环境带来一些常识。
Is it possible to maintain reliable energy supplies, to feed the world's growing population, and to conserve a global environment which is fit to live in? The author maintains that not only the mass media but even many scientists have treated these topics in a sensational and uncritical manner so that a large number of myths and fallacies now surround these serious but far from insurmountable challenges. In this book the author makes an inter-disciplinary examination of many of the major issues involved in these debates. He devotes the first three chapters to a detailed look at the major controversies which have arisen over energy, food and the environment. These range from a miscalculation about the strength of OPEC, through the surprising ignorance of what constitutes the basic requirements for human nutrition, to the startling way in which previous environmental crises have tended to disappear. Finally there is a weighing of the evidence presented in recent writings about future global prospects in an effort to bring some common sense to understanding how abundant energy, sufficient food, and a habitable environment can be provided.