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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... Earth. Some of the thirty-one essays that constitute this book offer poetic accounts of human thinking about our Earth. Others provide direct and accessible stories of human actions and their aftermath on the planet. In all cases the ...
... earth system, will be able to hold accountable others who act in ignorance of Earth's essential character. By adjusting the compass of our thinking about the natural world, The Earth Around Us enables readers to think, speak, and act ...
... Earth's ability to provide for us. We have used Earth's resources as if the planet were a bottomless cornucopia. Our consumption of nonrenewable fuel resources has led to global warming, deforestation, and desertification. We've ...
... Earth's simultaneous iierceness and fragility are in evidence everywhere. She is associate professor of geology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Caryl Edward Buchwald, Lloyd McBride professor of environmental studies in ...
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 |