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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... species, for economies, and for technology. Bifocal lenses allow people with vision problems to see both near and far objects. In geology, a view of rare events far away in space and time gives us the ability and perspective to focus on ...
... causing the extinction of many species, including dinosaurs. By studying the numbers, sizes, and ages of craters on the Earth and other planets, geologists in the field of planetary 6 PART I Records of Time and History.
... species of aquatic flora and fauna and to replenish soil nutrients. Prior to the completion of the dam, the discharge of the Colorado River varied between about 4,000 cubic feet per second (cfsl and approximately 100,000 cfs annually ...
... species of substance, it is concluded that strata in general have not been consolidated by means of aqueous solution . . . . It is supposed that the some power of extreme heat by which every different mineral substauce had been brought ...
... species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.” Hutton's perseverance, though, was more than equal to the irksorne vegetation. Near ledburgh, in the border country, he found his first very good example of an angular ...
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 |