The crowded greenhouse :: population, climate change, and creating a sustainable world /

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 atmosp...

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1. Verfasser: Firor, John
Weitere Verfasser: Jacobsen, Judith
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
DE-863
Zusammenfassung: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 resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
ISBN:9780300133448
0300133448
1281722782
9781281722782
9786611722784
6611722785
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