Green chemistry and the ten commandments of sustainability / Зеленая химия и десять заповедей устойчивого развития

Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability, 2nd ed, was written to provide an overview of the emerging discipline of green chemistry along with the fundamental chemical principles needed to understand this science. The second edition follows the first edition published in 2004 under the title of Green Chemistry: Fundamentals of Sustainable Chemical Science and Technology, from which it differs by the inclusion of an additional chapter, Chapter 14, “The Ten Commandments of Sustainability.”The year 2005 may well represent a “tipping point” with respect to sustainability. Extreme weather events, though not proof of global warming, are consistent with significant human effects upon global climate. Catastrophic events, such as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast and New Orleans, have shown the vulnerability of fragile modern infrastructures and may portend future disasters intensified by global climate change. The tremendous shrinkage of the Arctic ice cap evident during recent years provides an additional indication of global climate change. Sharp increases in petroleum and natural gas prices show that Earth is running out of these fossil fuel resources upon which modern economies are based <...>