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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... polluted water supplies. We cannot continue to act this way without substantial risk to people and other living things. All members of the global community must garner a solid working knowledge of our home, this planet. Earth's ...
... pollution in the New York—New Jersey Harbor as a consultant at a major environmental firm. Presently, Meg provides technical support to students and faculty in the Geographic information Systems (GIS) Computer Laboratory in the ...
... pollution. To people living under these conditions, shooting stars are not merely uncommon, they are “rare" or even "unknown." The little and common events do not reside in the individual 's consciousness, so there is no basis for ...
... pollution from the development of oil and gas wellsfill In addition, water storage and use that have accompanied the urbanization along the western edge of the Great Plains in cities such as Denver have reduced the flow and impacted the ...
... pollution out. The clay separates the deep groundwater that once fell as rain on clean forested uplands from shallow groundwater that drained off urban parking lots. Geologists spend a lot of time and a lot of money looking for clay ...
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 |