The state of the Earth : environmental challenges on the road to 2100 /
The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Between 1900 and 2000, the world's population quadrupled, and production and consumption of goods increased by a factor of twelve. In The State of...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- pt. 1. The setting and the challenge
- 1. Our green planet
- 2. Population, consumption, and the environment
- pt. 2. Vital resources
- 3. Soil, vegetation, and food
- 4. Water and energy : will there be enough?
- pt. 3. The human threat
- 5. Pollution, waste, and the ozone layer
- 6. The extinction crisis
- pt. 4. Climate change
- 7. Climate change in a glacial epoch
- 8. Greenhouse gases and the climate change
- pt. 5. Environmental policies and philosophies
- 9. Reform environmentalists and American environmental policy
- 10. Passionate environmentalism
- A personal afterword
- Notes
- Index.