King Midas and the Money Touch

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dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T02:36:33Zen
dc.date.available2014-01-23T02:36:33Zen
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.description.abstractKing Midas is known in myths and legends as the king who wished that all he touched might become gold. Modern humans are just as greedy as King Midas. In their efforts to make a bigger profit, they are destroying the biosphere, which is the source of renewable resources that are the basis of the human economy. By exploiting their natural resource base instead of nurturing it, societies are essentially choosing to fail.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25105en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.johncairns.net/Commentaries/Midas2.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectresource exploitationen
dc.subjecthungeren
dc.subjectmalnutritionen
dc.subjecttipping pointen
dc.titleKing Midas and the Money Touchen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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