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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... atmosphere. In an effort to spur creative thinking for an environmentally sound and decent future, essayists writing in the final portion of The Earth Around Us express philosophies meant to inspire humans to think outside their ...
... atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphe-re and solid earth—forever interact. When humans deliberately or inadvertently intervene in the natural system, the planet responds. We must learn to anticipate the effects of our actions. I hope this ...
... Atmospheric Administration's coastal services center in Charleston, South Carolina, Jeffrey L. Payne helps set U.S. policy regarding its coasts—-an important job because more than half of the U.S. population lives along our nation's ...
... Atmospheric Research, study and try to understand these events. Even nongeological agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control in the United States, will benefit from geological evidence about rare events, such as climate change ...
... atmosphere. We might wonder what would happen if they did not burn up in the atmosphere but landed on Earth, which they would do if they were bigger. In fact, some meteorites do land here; and some of them end up in laboratories, either ...
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 |