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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... GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 357 Let Earth Speal(!——VictorR. Baker 358 Geology and Environmental Iustice: An Example from Hawaii —It'll S. Schneiderrnan and Virginia Ashby Sharpe 368 Stakes, Options, and Some Natural Limits to a Sustainable ...
... Global Context, Gottlieb also comments that a forceful and effective critic of a proposed dam outside of Phoenix, Arizona, was successful precisely because of her ability to "challenge the technical and financial aspects of the project ...
... global scale—in particular, alterations to the 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 ...
... global warming, deforestation, and desertification. We've impounded water behind dams to generate hydroeleclflcity without regard for the destruction of upstream wetlands and other habitats. Our desire for picture-perfect fruits and ...
... global ozone depletion. A geologist turned administrator, Gordon P. Eaton lives on Whidbey Island in northern Puget Sound. Washington. Gordie has steered at least two of the major institutions of earth science in this country: he was ...
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 |