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Altars of unhewn stone : science and the earth
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- Creator
- Wes Jackson
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- San Francisco : North Point Press, 1987
- Physical Details
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- x, 158 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0865472726, 9780865472723, 0865472874, 9780865472877
- OCLC
- ocm15984647
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146).
- Introduction: Altars of unhewn stone -- The information explosion -- Old Salsola -- Biotechnology and supply-side thinking -- Scientific balloons -- Building a sustainable society -- Hell is now technologically feasible -- How to avoid building pyramids -- Pre-Copernican minds of the space age -- Land wisdom vs. lab success -- Meeting the expectations of the land -- Living nets in a new prairie sea -- The future of the land, the future of food -- Farm debt -- Falsehoods of farming -- New roots for American agriculture -- A search for the unifying concept for sustainable agriculture -- Conclusion: Toward a common covenant