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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... population lives along our nation's shorelines. ]eff's seven years of prior experience working for N OAA in Washington, D.C., the Office of Management and Budget in the executive office of the President, and on Capitol Hill as a ...
... population of the planet—every major city that we visit is growing faster than its infrastructure. Television may carry this message into individual homes, but people who do not travel and personally experience the population changes ...
... population that do not see shooting stars—perhaps because of perennially bad weather or because of city light pollution. To people living under these conditions, shooting stars are not merely uncommon, they are “rare" or even "unknown ...
... about half of Egypt's power supply. and improve navigation conditions on the Nile because they keep water levels fairly constant. Because of the growing population of Egypt, these 8 PART I Records of Time and History.
... population lives within a dozen miles of the Nile. These changes in the Nile have influenced even the large Mediterranean Sea. Loss of silt and algae from the Nile caused the disappearance of a major sardine resource from the ...
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 |