The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable PlanetHenry Holt and Company, 2000 M03 27 - 250 pages Soil contamination...public lands...surface and groundwater pollution...coastal erosion...global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so, what can we do about it? |
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... find that there is an interconnectedness between events that are rare in space and those that are rare in time, as I will show in a number of examples. Consider first the nature of rareness in space. People who have few opportunities to ...
... find that the shooting stars are caused by meteorites that are the size of a sand grain or a small pea and enter the Earth's atmosphere. We might wonder what would happen if they did not burn up in the atmosphere but landed on Earth ...
... find reason to conclude, lst, That the land on which we test is not simple and original, but that it is a composition, and had been formed by the operation of second causes. Zdly, That bcjbre the present land was made there had ...
... find the time to make a Ben Nevis, let alone a Gibraltar or the domes of Wales. Hutton had seen Hadrian's Wall running across moor and fen after sixteen hundred winters in Northumberland. Not a great deal had happened to it. The ...
... find. As Hutton would write later, in the prototypical lament of the field geologist, "To a naturalist nothing is indifierent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully ...
Contents
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Part II SCIENTIFIC JUDGMENTS AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 57 |
Part III RESOURCES RECONFIGURED | 121 |
Part IV LOCAL MANIPULATIONS | 197 |
Part V INVENTIVE SOLUTIONS | 255 |
Part VI WHOLE EARTH PERTURBATIONS | 307 |
Part VII GLOBAL PERSPECTlVES | 357 |
Source Notes | 410 |
Index | 443 |