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Green Planet - How Plants Keep the Earth Alive (Paperback, First Paperback Edition)
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Green Planet - How Plants Keep the Earth Alive (Paperback, First Paperback Edition)
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2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Plants are not just a pretty
part of the landscape; they keep the entire planet, with all of its
human and nonhuman inhabitants, alive. Stanley Rice documents the
many ways in which plants do this by making oxygen, regulating the
greenhouse effect, controlling floods, and producing all the food
in the world. Plants also create natural habitats for all organisms
in the world. With illustrations and clear writing for
non-specialists, Green Planet helps general readers realize that if
we are to rescue the Earth from environmental disaster, we must
protect wild plants.Beginning with an overview of how human
civilization has altered the face of the Earth, particularly by the
destruction of forests, the book details the startling consequences
of these actions. Rice provides compelling reasons for government
officials, economic leaders, and the public to support efforts to
save threatened and endangered plants. Global campaigns to solve
environmental problems with plants, such as the development of
green roofs and the Green Belt Movementùa women's organization in
Kenya that empowers communities worldwide to protect the
environmentùshow readers that efforts to save wild plants can be
successful and beneficial to the economic well-being of nations.
Through current scientific evidence, readers see that plants are
vital to the ecological health of our planet and understand what
can be done to lead to a betterùand greenerùfuture Benefits of
plants: Help modulate greenhouse gases Produce almost all oxygen in
the air Create cool shade that reduces energy costs Prevent floods,
droughts, and soil erosion Produce all of the food in the world
Create and preserve soil Create natural habitats Heal the landscape
after natural and human disasters
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