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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... Example from Hawaii —It'll S. Schneiderrnan and Virginia Ashby Sharpe 368 Stakes, Options, and Some Natural Limits to a Sustainable World *—-E-an Zen 386 What Else Should My Neighbor Know?—car_vt Edward Buchwald 398 Source Notes 410 ...
... example, when I moved from Pennsylvania to the Rocky Mountains and then to the Southwest, 1 was totally unprepared for the high rugged mountains or for the beautiful cacti that I saw. I was overwhelmed by these “rare” mountains and ...
... example, several meteoroids the size of grapeftuits will hit us in an average year. One meteoroid the size of half of a football field will impact every 50,000 years and make a crater about the size of Meteor Crater. A meteoroid a mile ...
... examples of exposed rock were extremely hard to find. As Hutton would write later, in the prototypical lament of the ... example of an angular unconfor~ mity. He was roaming about the region on a visit to a friend when he came upon a ...
... examples of different types of Euro-American encounters with variable environments of the North American midcontinent ... example considers how, from reading clues from the land's distant past, earth and environmental scientists try to ...
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 |