TY - BOOK AU - Sale,Peter F. TI - Our dying planet: an ecologist's view of the crisis we face SN - 9780520267565 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - GF 75 .S25 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Environmental responsibility KW - Ecology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index; pt. 1. Information : what we are doing to our world. Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs -- pt. 2. Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem. The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature -- pt. 3. Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do. What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the human population ; Our alternative futures ER -