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The Middle Path - Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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The Middle Path - Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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The debate about global warming is over. There is no longer any
question that human activity is causing the Earth's climate to heat
up at an increasingly rapid rate, with consequences that we are now
only beginning to understand. Meanwhile, human population growth is
placing unsustainable demands on everything from animal habitats to
water supplies. Faced with radically different assessments of the
long-term effects of global warming--from oil companies,
scientists, business lobbies, and environmental groups--concerned
citizens find it difficult to tell how dire the prognosis really
is. Is life on Earth doomed, or is there still time to
mitigate--even to reverse--the damage that has already been done?
In "The Middle Path," noted geographer Eric Lambin provides a
concise, readable summary of the present state of the environment
and considers what must be done if environmental catastrophe is to
be avoided. Finding merit in the arguments of both optimists and
pessimists, Lambin argues that it is not too late to exploit the
inherent tendency toward equilibrium of large-scale systems such as
the earth's environment. By relying upon a combination of remedies
as global as international cap-and-trade emission treaties and as
local as municipal programs promoting the use of bicycles rather
than cars, it may yet be possible to rescue humanity from a
potentially fatal crisis of its own making.
Based on rigorous scientific analysis, and strikingly free of
ideological prejudice, "The Middle Path" presents a fresh view of
our troubled future, brilliantly balancing tough-minded realism
with humanitarian ideals of cooperation and ingenuity.
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