Our Polluted Planet

Author : Jon Erickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Out of Balance written by Jon Erickson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the interdependence of land, sea and air, this book looks at what pollution has done to the biosphere. The author discusses the increase of industrial contamination and its long-term consequences, from the holes in the ozone layer and clear-cutting of the rain forests to destroyed estuaries, desertification and depleted energy resourses. He suggests solutions, for example the need for remote satellite sensing of pollution for waste disposal cleanup, toxic waste removal and purification of rivers and lakes.

Author : Jonathon S. Erickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780070196186
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Out of Balance written by Jonathon S. Erickson and published by . This book was released on 1991-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Juniper
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0241443865
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How We're F***ing Up Our Planet written by Tony Juniper and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using powerful, easy-to-grasp graphics, this book cuts through the noise and gets straight to the facts on climate change, overpopulation, pollution, over-consumption, and much more. In How We're F***ing Up Our Planet Tony Juniper distills wide-ranging, heart-stopping research into one reliable and eye-opening book. He charts the dramatic explosion of human population and consumption and its impact on planet Earth, revealing how increasing pressures on our world affect factors such as climate, sea levels, and pollution, and what that means for our future. Global warming has led to sea levels rising by around 18cm (7in) over the past 100 years, and the Arctic ice sheet is shrinking at a rate never seen before. 10 million people each year are affected by coastal flooding. One third of all land is at risk of turning to desert, with huge implications for food supplies. Deaths due to air pollution rise every year, and more plastic pollution of the oceans threatens marine life and fishing stocks. As well as explaining global trends and showing how they are connected, How We are F***ing Up Our Planet explores how we can live more sustainably into the future, with positive ideas of how we can mitigate damaging trends.

Author : Mostafa K. Tolba
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401122784
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Our Planet written by Mostafa K. Tolba and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving Our Planet analyses the changes (both positive and negative) that have occurred in the environment in the past two decades. It focuses not only on the state of the environment but also on the interactions between development activities and the environment. It highlights the main responses since 1972 to protect the environment. It is based on a wide-ranging review of the scientific literatue, UNEP reports (and other sources) and over 500 references are listed.

Author : Paddy Woodworth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608146X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Once and Future Planet written by Paddy Woodworth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative But that paints an unbalanced—and overly disheartening—picture of what’s going on with environmental stewardship today. There are success stories, and Our Once and Future Planet delivers a fascinating account of one of the most impressive areas of current environmental experimentation and innovation: ecological restoration. Veteran investigative reporter Paddy Woodworth has spent years traveling the globe and talking with people—scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens—who are working on the front lines of the battle against environmental degradation. At sites ranging from Mexico to New Zealand and Chicago to Cape Town, Woodworth shows us the striking successes (and a few humbling failures) of groups that are attempting to use cutting-edge science to restore blighted, polluted, and otherwise troubled landscapes to states of ecological health—and, in some of the most controversial cases, to particular moments in historical time, before widespread human intervention. His firsthand field reports and interviews with participants reveal the promise, power, and limitations of restoration. Ecological restoration alone won’t solve the myriad problems facing our environment. But Our Once and Future Planet demonstrates the role it can play, and the hope, inspiration, and new knowledge that can come from saving even one small patch of earth.

Author : August Greeley
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781435826755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poisoned Planet written by August Greeley and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our world today, pollution is a major concern. Pollution affects everyone. Chemical pollutants have even been found in Antarctica! This book explores pollution, what causes it, what it does to us and our environment, and what we can do to stop it. Readers will be inspired to do their part to help end pollution.

Author : Wael Al-Delaimy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030311252
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility written by Wael Al-Delaimy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate change has been established through extensive published evidence and reports. However, the connections between climate change, the health of the planet and the impact on human health have not received the same level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people in the last 20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted collaborations between physical scientists, public health researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem. The solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public, faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines including the humanities, and policy makers.

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108944272
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Detox written by Julian Cribb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1512413143
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trashing the Planet written by Stuart A. Kallen and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, humans produce 1.3 billion tons of garbage every year. Discover the causes and proposed solutions for the global garbage glut, examining pollution on land, in the ocean, in the air, and in space.

Author : Francois Jarrige
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542730
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contamination of the Earth written by Francois Jarrige and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts--chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast "plastic continent" found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century.