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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... human activity on 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 ...
... humans create. Problems in the physical world are multifaceted; solutions to them will require consideration of ethics ... human life on the planet. The third segment of the book explores a new set of "resources" that we must preserve if ...
... humans are coming up against the limits of Earth's ability to provide for us. We have used Earth's resources as if the ... human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We ...
... human impacts on the environment, and science education. Ed's work includes many years of service on Minnesota's state environmental regulatory boards. In 1994 he was selected "Citizen of the Academy” by the American Association for ...
... human environmental history and ideas of landscape. Concerned about the welfare of human beings and other living things on this planet, ]i.l.l S. Schneiderman applies her geological knowledge in order to understand the processes that ...
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 |