Our dying planet : an ecologist's view of the crisis we face / Peter F. Sale.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.Description: x, 339 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520267565 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520267567 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GF 75 .S25 2011
Contents:
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.
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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.

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