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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... storms that darkened the skies and brought early winter, when the deserts of Africa and the new desert of the Amazon spread month by month.”5 Lest this really be our future, every person on this planet must come to appreciate the ...
... Storm process and coastal hazards are the work of David M. Bush. A member of the National Academy of Sciences post-disaster field study team for both Hurricane Gilbert and Hurricane Hugo, he appreciates the power and dynamism of coastal ...
... storms." Compelling evidence indicates that major civilizations have been severely affected by earthquakes and earthquake ... storm of more than 80 years duration was reported as having occurred along the same fault from AD 967 to 1050 ...
... storms—the Dust Bowl—especially during drought on the southern plains in the 1930s. The Soil Conservation Service. now the Natural Resources Conservation Service, originated as a result. Conspicuous rows of trees found along the edges ...
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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 |