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8 - Transforming Energy and Industry: Towards a Net-Zero Circular Economy for Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

Andy Haines  and
Howard Frumkin
Andy Haines
Affiliation:
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Howard Frumkin
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Summary

The industrial revolution, the rise of nation states, and the emergence of market societies represented a turning point in the history of human civilization – a Great Transformation, as memorably characterized by economic historian Karl Polanyi (1). Indeed, there are echoes of Polanyi’s phrase in the Great Acceleration, the vast upscaling of the human enterprise that has brought us up against planetary boundaries (2). We can assert, without hyperbole, that another civilizational transformation is now needed – a transformation in how energy and materials are used, in how humans co-exist with the natural world, and in the accompanying social and economic underpinnings of modern societies (3, 4).

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Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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