Puzzle18 French FriesGetting Your French Fry FixA Short History of the FryFeminist Approaches: The Body Politics of French FriesPolitical Economy and Racialized Environments: Have it Your Way?Ethics: Protecting or Engineering Potato Heritage?The French Fry Puzzle19 E-WasteDigital DividesA Short History of E-WasteE-Waste and Markets: From Externality to CommodityThe Political Economy of E-WasteE-Waste and Racialized EnvironmentsThe E-Waste Puzzle13 Glossary
14 Index
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 11.1 Sandhill cranes of the Platte River. A half million...1.2 Heck Cattle, introduced...
2 Chapter 22.1 Hypothesized demographic trends in a Malthusian...2.2 World population since 1750. Rapid increases in...2.3 Global population growth rates....2.4 Population growth rates worldwide by country.2.5 The demographic transition model. In theory, falling death...2.6 National fertility and female literacy rates around the...
3 Chapter 33.1 Environmental scarcity drives markets. Shell gas station...3.2 The market response model. In theory, scarcity of...3.3 Regulation versus cap and trade. Both approaches...
4 Chapter 44.1 The Prisoner’s Dilemma in game-theoretical terms. The...4.2 Irrigation systems are labyrinths of sluices, canals, and...4.3 A woman tending her herd in India. In many parts of...
5 Chapter 55.1 A sow’s “farrowing crate,” where she will remain for...5.2 (a + b) Hetch Hetchy Valley, undammed before 1914 (left),...
6 Chapter 66.1 Voluntary/Involuntary–Common/Catastrophic: A matrix...6.2 Map of tribal lands and superfund sites.
7 Chapter 77.1 The secret of surplus value, in a nutshell. By the...7.2 Schematic representation of the possible contradictions...
8 Chapter 88.1 Though Pacific Northwest forest is “...8.2 Pollen evidence from Morocco over 14,000 years....8.3 John Gast, “American Progress,” 1872. Lady...
9 Chapter 99.1 Percentage female interns, staff, and boards...9.2 The diverse economies iceberg, featured on the website...9.3 An industrial worker with Phossy Jaw.9.4 BabyLegs (below) compared to a more traditional...
10 Chapter 1010.1 Predicted surface of child blood lead level and ward-specific...10.2 Correlations of class and race with plumbing poverty in...10.3 Hazardous waste and military facilities in Tooele County.
11 Chapter 1111.1 Carbon on Earth. A Gt is a gigaton, or a billion tons....11.2 The Keeling curve: Atmospheric concentrations of...11.3 Atmospheric concentration of carbon. Over the past thousand...11.4 Global average temperatures, sea level, and snow cover. Over...11.5 Cartogram of carbon emissions. In this map, countries are...11.6 The strange logic of carbon offsets.
12 Chapter 1212.1 Sequoia sempervirens, the genus in the cypress...12.2 Global deforestation rates.12.3 Forest cover in France from 1500 to...
13 Chapter 1313.1 The gray wolf.13.2 World map of countries with known gray wolf populations in 13.3 Estimated range of gray wolves in the contiguous United States.13.4 Wolf management zones in Minnesota.13.5 An early twentieth-century government wolf trapper.
14 Chapter 1414.1 The nuclear fuel chain.14.2 World uranium production, 14.3 Colonial division of labor in the Navajo uranium mines....14.4 The Ranger Uranium mine...
15 Chapter 1515.1 The sleek, powerful, bluefin tuna. The bluefin are the largest...15.2 Dolphin mortality at the hands of...15.3 The “Medina panel,” one of a few...15.4 A label from a can of Alaska salmon...15.5 Does a tuna have rights? Mutilated tuna rest on pallets at...
16 Chapter 1616.1 Lead arsenate – most popular pesticide prior to DDT.16.2 Map showing quantity of turfgrass across the United States.16.3 The lawn chemical commodity and knowledge chain.
17 Chapter 1717.1 The Poland Spring “Spring House” in...17.2 Women draw water from a communal well in...17.3 US per capita consumption of bottled water from 1988...17.4 Cartogram of bottled water consumption worldwide.17.5 Median amount spent each month by US survey respondents...17.6 Percentage of US survey respondents who think bottled water...
18 Chapter 1818.1 Transfer and spread of the potato after the Columbian Exchange.
19 Chapter 1919.1 In Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana.19.2 Life-cycle flow chart for electronic products.19.3 Global trade in e-waste, 19.4 Battery Imports to the United States from...
List of Tables
1 Chapter 22.1 Who is overpopulated? Some comparisons of...
2 Chapter 33.1 Market-based solutions. An overview...
3 Chapter 1212.1 Comparison of the number of important insect species measured...12.2 Some key tropical exports and their leading...12.3 The predominant banana export companies operating globally,...
4 Chapter 1313.1 Countries worldwide with gray wolf...
5 Chapter 1414.1 Countries producing most uranium, 2019.14.2 Comparison of predicted and actual radioactive...
6 Chapter 1515.1 Overfished marine species.
7 Chapter 1717.1 Freshwater usage around the world. The...17.2 Domestic US water use. A family of four...17.3 Selected leading per capita consumer...
8 Chapter 1818.1 Energy inputs and costs of potato production per...
List of Boxes
1 Chapter 22.1 Environmental Solution? The One-Child Policy
2 Chapter 33.1 Environmental Solution? Insurance Addresses Climate Change
3 Chapter 44.1 Environmental Solution? The Montreal Protocol
4 Chapter 55.1 Environmental Solution? Endangered Species Act
5 Chapter 66.1 Environmental Solution? Ecomodernism
6 Chapter 77.1 Environmental Solution? Joint and Several Liability
7 Chapter 88.1 Environmental Solution? Preserving “Alien”...
8 Chapter 99.1 Environmental Solution? Adorable plastic...
9 Chapter 1010.1 Solution? Treatment as State...
10 Chapter 1111.1 Environmental Solution? Geoengineering
11 Chapter 1212.1 Environmental Solution? Shade-Grown Coffee
12 Chapter 1313.1 Environmental Solution? Wildlife Friendly Beef and Wool
13 Chapter 1414.1 Environmental Solution? Energy-Efficient
