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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... layers, the mud, silt, sand, and pebbles would pile up until they reached a depth where heat and pressure could cause them to become consolidated, fused, indurated, lithified-—rock. The story could hardly end there. If it did, then the ...
... layers of complexity. For example, in dealing with environments modified or altered by human action, geoscientists face what historical ecologist Emily Russell refers to as an "overlay of causation" or agency that has varied over space ...
... layer of water-charged gravel at its base. This gravel, once poured off the melting glacier, now holds groundwater under pressure, an artesian aquifer. The clay keeps the pressure in and the pollution out. The clay separates the deep ...
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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 |