History's most important invention | Alan Weisman | TEDxSitka

Описание: This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. A talk about history’s most influential invention - the Haber-Bosch process - and how we can solve the mess it made.

Alan Weisman has written several books and won numerous international awards for his work in journalism and literature, including the critically acclaimedThe World Without Us, which describes a post-human scenario of the planet. His next book, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? was released in September 2013 by Little, Brown and Co. Among his other works are Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World (1998), winner of the Social Inventions Award from the Global Ideas Bank, An Echo In My Blood (1999), La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico, and We, Immortals (1979). His reports from around the world have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Orion,Audubon, Mother Jones, Discover, Condé Nast Traveler, Resurgence, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Writing 2006.

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