The crowded greenhouse: population, climate change, and creating a sustainable world
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1. Verfasser: Firor, John (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press c2002
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-229) and index
Machine generated contents note: 1 One Vision of the Year 2050 1 -- 2 The New World of Population Policy 23 -- 3 Putting Cairo to Work 52 -- 4 U.S. Population Activism in the New Century 80 -- 5 A Warming World 102 -- 6 International Climate-Change Negotiations 135 -- 7 Creating a Stable Atmosphere 165 -- 8 Population and Climate Change Together 187 -- Afterword: Dancing in the Crowded Greenhouse 203
Firor and Jacobsen present the strongest possible arguments about human population, climate change, and the relationship between Earth and human beings, discussing how people on Earth should act to stabilise human population, and why and how they should act to stabilise the composition of the atmosphere. Three arguments are offered in service of the ultimate goal that is to strike a new balance in which the scale of human activities is in keeping with the scale of natural systems
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 237 p.)
ISBN:0300093209
0300133448
9780300093209
9780300133448

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