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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... Sustainable Living: Common Ground for Geology and Theology —George W Fisher 99 The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis ——Stephen Jay Gould '11 2 Part III RESOURCES RECONFIGURED 121 Ruling the Range: Managing the ...
... Sustainable World *—-E-an Zen 386 What Else Should My Neighbor Know?—car_vt Edward Buchwald 398 Source Notes 410 Index 4-4-3 PREFACE When Rachel Carson—scientist. writer, activist—accepted the National Book Award Contents.
... sustainable future on planet Earth. Here readers will glean the perspectives of visionary geoscientists who contemplate Earth's history and the place of humans in it. If the future of hurnanity is to be environmentally tenable. the ...
... sustainability. In the dystopic future envisioned by poet and novelist Marge Piercy in her book He, She and It, the heroine Shira describes listening to a lecture “about two billion people who had starved to death in the Famine, when ...
... sustainability and human health, and to the moral, ethical, and theological dimensions of those issues. A professor of earth and planetary sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, George is also the deputy director of the program of ...
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 |