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Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1554077710
Presents more the three hundred photographs showing how the world has changed over the past century from industrialization, urbanization, natural disasters, war, and travel and tourism.
Author : Robert Quinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194139786
Read and discover all about Earth in the past and Earth today. How did Earth form? What natural resources does Earth give us? Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.
Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015070755163
A collection of 250 stunning images showing locations around the world as they were and as they are now, with captions explaining the often breathtaking changes that have occurred in just a short amount of time.
Author : David Wallace-Wells
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525576723
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN : 1845335856
Earth Then and Now records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture, and space agencies to create a powerful collection of images. Each pair of photographs has been selected to tell a compelling story - of a melting glacier, an ever-rising cityscape or a natural disaster - presenting a stark visual comparison. On one page, we are shown a part of the world as it was, five, ten, twenty, fifty, or even more than one hundred years ago. On the facing page, we have the same place as it looks today. Concise captions explain the facts and then leave us to draw our own conclusions about the Earth Then and Now and about the Earth to come.
Author : Nathaniel Rich
Publisher : Picador
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1529015847
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.
Author : Carla W. Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0073036358
This vivid edition of Earth: Then and Now continues to incorporate balanced coverage of both physical and historical geology. Current "hot" topics-earthquake cycletheory and global climate change-are addressed in this affordable resource designed for your one- or two-semestergeneral geology course.
Author : Carla W. Montgomery,Kenneth F. Griffin
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069728283X
Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443400084
Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He then continues with an astounding depiction of how Earth will fare once we’re no longer around. The World Without Us is a one-of-a-kind book that sweeps through time from the moment of humanity’s future extinction to millions of years into the future. Drawing on interviews with experts and on real examples of places in the world that have already been abandoned by humans—Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest—Weisman shows both the shocking impact we’ve had on our planet and how impermanent our footprint actually is.
Author : Stephen Emmott
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780345806468
Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILLION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILLION is not another climate book. TEN BILLION is a book about us.
Author : Jonathan Schell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804737029
These two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.
Author : Douglas C. Montgomery,Dathe
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069713623X
Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008434052
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.
Author : Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199986842
Grand Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Book Awards Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish. But precisely how to change remains an open question. In Earth-honoring Faith, Larry Rasmussen answers that question with a dramatically new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the ongoing health of our planet. Rejecting the modern assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Rasmussen insists that we must derive a spiritual and ecological ethic that accounts for the well-being of all creation, as well as the primal elements upon which it depends: earth, air, fire, water, and sunlight. He argues that good science, necessary as it is, will not be enough to inspire fundamental change. We must draw on religious resources as well to make the difficult transition from an industrial-technological age obsessed with consumption to an ecological age that restores wise stewardship of all life. Earth-honoring Faith advocates an alliance of spirituality and ecology, in which the material requirements for planetary life are reconciled with deep traditions of spirituality across religions, traditions that include mysticism, sacramentalism, prophetic practices, asceticism, and the cultivation of wisdom. It is these shared spiritual practices that can produce a chorus of world faiths to counter the consumerism, utilitarianism, alienation, oppression, and folly that have pushed us to the brink. Written with passionate commitment and deep insight, Earth-honoring Faith reminds us that we must live in the present with the knowledge that the eyes of future generations will look back at us.
Author : Lynn Rothschild,Adrian Lister
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080494852
Driving evolution forward, the Earth's physical environment has challenged the very survival of organisms and ecosystems throughout the ages. With a fresh new perspective, Evolution on Planet Earth shows how these physical realities and hurdles shaped the primary phases of life on the planet. The book's thorough coverage also includes chapters on more proximate factors and paleoenvironmental events that influenced the diversity of life. A team of notable ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and paleontologists join forces to describe drifting continents, extinction events, and climate change -- important topics that continue to shape Earth's inhabitants to this very day. In a world where global change has become an international issue, this book provides a several billion-year evolutionary perspective on what the environment and environmental change means to life. * Provides thorough background information on each topic while introducing cutting-edge research* Features original material solicited from the leading minds in evolutionary biology and geology today* Emphasizes the influence of massive geological forces - continental drift, volcanic activity, sea and tides
