Download or read book Our Endangered Atmosphere written by Gary E. McCuen and published by G E M/McCuen Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses global warming, the ozone layer, and the need for action.
Download or read book Our Endangered Planet written by Mary King Hoff and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the delicate ecological balance among all living things on land, the damage done by humanity in contributing to the extinction of various species, and ways of preventing further harm.
Download or read book The Atmosphere written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Endangered Earth written by John Langone and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the environmental crisis, focusing on such problems as overpopulation, the pollution of water, air and land, ozone depletion, global warming, and disappearing wildlife. Suggests ways to improve life in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Atmosphere Endangered and Endangering written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecology and Our Endangered Life support Systems written by Eugene Pleasants Odum and published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook and citizen's guide to the principles of human ecology. The relevance of the principles discussed to human affairs is stressed. Causes and long-term solutions to our environmental problems are discussed
Download or read book The Sixth Extinction written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Download or read book Ecology and Our Endangered Life support Systems written by Eugene Pleasants Odum and published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People on earth would be in trouble if their life-support systems failed. In this book, a founder of the field of ecology explains what those systems are, how they function, and what we need to do to keep them working. This second edition presents a holistic, or "big-picture", look at ecology.
Download or read book Between Earth and Sky written by Seth Cagin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1950s CFCs had found further applications: as propellants in aerosol spray cans, in the manufacture of Styrofoam, and as vital industrial solvents. Then, in 1974, after millions of tons of CFCs had been released into the Earth's atmosphere, two scientists at the University of California demonstrated that these same "safe" wonder substances had altered the fundamental chemistry of the atmosphere and had begun to erode the ozone layer - the protective shield of all life on earth. The battle to restrict CFCs was fought in laboratories, at international conferences, and in the halls of Congress, pitting environmentalists intent on remedying what had become a global crisis against industrialists and government officials opposed to regulation. Finally, in 1987, fifty-seven nations signed the first global environmental treaty - the Montreal Protocol, which regulated the further production of CFCs and ushered in a new era of international cooperation on the environment.
Download or read book Our Endangered Planet written by Suzanne Winckler and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because we depend on soil to help us live and work, we need to take care of this valuable part of our environment. This book will help you understand how soil is formed, how it has become endangered, and how you can protect this important natural resource.
Download or read book Our Endangered Values written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. Now he describes quite personally his own involvement and reactions to disturbing societal trends involving both the religious and political worlds as they become intertwined.
Download or read book Climate Abandoned written by Jill Cody and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Wakeup Call We no longer have the luxury of ignoring climate change "What's really breathtaking is how ill-prepared we are for such changes." - Bill McKibben, "This is How Human Extinction Could Play Out," Rolling Stone There isn't much time left. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the "planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change." Most countries are experiencing extreme drought, wildfires, floods and biodiversity loss around the world. We must act with constructive outrage now. In Climate Abandoned: We're on The Endangered Species List, scientists and environmental experts discuss the hard truths, causes and consequences of the climate crisis' interconnected issues. They shed light on the greenhouse effect, declining biodiversity, our warming oceans, ideology vs. science, and other urgent topics. At the end of each chapter, you'll find practical tips for what you can keep doing, stop doing, and start doing to make better choices for the future. Let us move ourselves off the Endangered Species list. There is no time to waste. Read Climate Abandoned. Learn what actions you can take, and do your part to protect our environment. You are a member of the pivotal generation.
Download or read book Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World written by Thom Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today. The global consensus is clear that human activity is mostly to blame for its harmful effects, but there is disagreement about what should be done. While no shortage of proposals from ecological footprints and the polluter pays principle to adaptation technology and economic reforms, each offers a solution – but is climate change a problem we can solve? In this provocative new book, these popular proposals for ending or overcoming the threat of climate change are shown to offer no easy escape and each rest on an important mistake. Thom Brooks argues that a future environmental catastrophe is an event we can only delay or endure, but not avoid. This raises new ethical questions about how we should think about climate change. How should we reconceive sustainability without a status quo? Why is action more urgent and necessary than previously thought? What can we do to motivate and inspire hope? Many have misunderstood the kind of problem that climate change presents – as well as the daunting challenges we must face and overcome. Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World is a critical guide on how we can better understand the fragile world around us before it is too late. This innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice, environmental policy and environmental ethics.
Download or read book Understanding Our Environment written by William P. Cunningham and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Save the Earth Don t Give Birth written by Jonathan Austen and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the single best thing you can do to help the environment?Is it to stop eating meat? Drive and fly less? Recycle and use less energy in your home? It is none of these. The best thing you can do to help the environment, by far, is to have a small family, or even better have no children at all. By not adding another person to the planet, you are saving an entire lifetime's worth of pollution, waste, carbon dioxide emissions and consumption. It is a truth universally ignored that a planet on the verge of collapse must address the root cause ecological annihilation: overpopulation. World population has rocketed from only one billion to nearly 8 billion in only the last two centuries. Add to this our personal consumption, which has multiplied by many times in the developed world over the last 50 years, and we are potentially heading to a cataclysm of epic proportions. We are in the middle of the Sixth Extinction and the climate is becoming unstable before our eyes. Allowing the world's population to rocket to its current level is the biggest act of criminal negligence ever committed, by ourselves upon ourselves. We know we're heading in the wrong direction, but we blindly follow the path towards the cliff edge.We have to ask, 'How did we let this happen?' It is happening right now and we are carrying on as if everything is normal. So why has virtually nothing been done about the exponential increase in our numbers? Why is it the elephant in the room, with any talk about population off the agenda with virtually no one talking about it? This book contains everything you ever wanted to know about overpopulation but were afraid to ask. Save The Earth, Don't Give Birth covers everything influencing population growth, from the personal to the global, from politics to religion, controversial areas often ignored by the media and general conversation.How did we get here? The human population has risen dramatically, particularly over the last 200 years. The causes and the implications explained, from Malthus to Ehrlich, who gave us warnings which have been ignored. It isn't a simple matter of too many people, with different cultures and governments with different policies affecting population growth. Apocalypse Soon? Modern society, capitalism and technology have combined to destroy the fabric of the Earth itself, devastating wildlife and polluting the air, sea and land. The combined impacts are happening now across the planet.It is a Very Tricky Subject. Given the apocalyptic scenario we are facing, why are we not doing more about it? Here are all of the reasons why we are sitting back and watching it happen.The Bounty of the Commons. What we could do to achieve lower population growth across the globe, from the smallest personal actions to global policies. All of the negatives from the Impacts could be reversed to bring a better world for everyone, and everything, on our one and only planet.
Download or read book World on Fire written by George John Mitchell and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Senate Majority Leader discusses the global environmental crisis that is replacing the Cold War as our number one concern, then goes on to detail the responses of various nations.
Download or read book Endangered Species written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
