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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... mineral deposits in Australia led her to question the reasons for the diminished status of field work in geological research. As a historian of science, she tries to understand the intellectual preferences and predilections of ...
... Minerals from the fertilizers and salt are accumulating because of evaporation, and these enter the food chain in potentially toxic levels. Waste of both nonhuman and human origins is concentrated because of the lack of drainage. The ...
... mineral substauce had been brought into a melted state might be capable of producing an expansive force sufliclentfor elevating the land from the bottom of the ocean to the place it now occupies above the surface oftheseo.... A theory ...
... mineral discoveries and development of water reclamation and irrigation projects partly "compensated" for the aridity. In this second phase of encounters widi the desert, with water projects and irrigation efforts in place, the desert ...
... minerals stable at Earth's surface became unstable. New minerals grew at the expense of old, aligned in response to the motions of great tectonic plates and the weight of overlying material. The rock developed a foliation—an alignment ...
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 |