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? |
From inside the book
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... Future Climate —Steven M. Stanley 308 A Record of Climate Change from Owens Lake Sediment —Kirsten M. Menking 322 Lessons from the Past for Future Climate—Tamara Namerofi' 336 Nature's Sunscreen: Ozone Depletion and the Health of the ...
... future on planet Earth. Here readers will glean the perspectives of visionary geoscientists who contemplate Earth's history and the place of humans in it. If the future of hurnanity is to be environmentally tenable. the public must ...
... future. Ultimately, the book is an enticing set of true stories with geological themes. Together the essays make a strong case for the centrality of earth science to environmental sustainability. In the dystopic future envisioned by ...
... future. Her scientific research focuses on sediments in rivers and deItas—in particular, the Catskill Mountain watersheds and the Nile and Yangtze deltas. As a science advisor to the democratic leader of the U.S. Senate during the 104th ...
... future times. We will use the bifocal capacity of geology to look into the distant past and deep Earth to focus on rare, but possible, events that could affect human civilization. As we go through examples of such events, we should keep ...
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 |