Lina Zeldovich: The Other Dark Matter | Buch

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Cover: 9780226615578 | The Other Dark Matter | Lina Zeldovich | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch

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Beschreibung

"In the world today, we face considerable challenges, and while new ones pile on, the old standbys of fossil fuel overuse, greenhouse gas emissions, resource scarcity, food security, and weather and water extremes like droughts and floods remain. Fortunately, scientists are studying myriad ways human waste can help. Science journalist Lina Zeldovich argues in The Other Dark Matter that human excrement is a resource, cheap and widely available, that can be converted into a sustainable energy source, act as an organic fertilizer, provide effective medicinal therapy for resistant bacterial infection, and much more. Zeldovich profiles the pioneers of this repurposing, including startups in remote African villages and those in American cities that convert sewage into crude oil and collect specimens from volunteers to treat patients battling superbugs. The Other Dark Matter begins with a broad overview of our history of excrement disposal. The author's vignettes touch on ancient Roman sewage systems, Medieval latrines, and other methods used around the world to distance people from their excrement. Today's immense, computerized treatment plants are only the latest in a long line of engineering marvels that have distanced us from disease, she shows, but, importantly, they have also caused considerable damage to our earth's ecology. Zeldovich explains the massive redistribution of nutrients and sanitation inequities across the globe, drawing on her research and many interviews"--

Über den Autor

Lina Zeldovich is a writer and editor specializing in the journalism of solutions. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Scientific American, Atlantic, Newsweek, and many other popular outlets. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, she lives in New York City and keeps a compost pile in her backyard.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	272
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780226615578
ISBN-10:	022661557X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Zeldovich, Lina
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Maße:	233 x 157 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Lina Zeldovich
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.11.2021
Gewicht:	0,504 kg

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