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Oct 31, 2006 · While An Inconvenient Truth closely examines one menace to our environment--global warming--Earth in the Balance takes a broader approach, focusing on the threats that everyday choices pose to our climate, water, soil, and diversity of plant and animal life. A passionate, lifelong defender of the environment, Gore describes in brave and ...
Foreword: The Coming 'Environment Decade' * Introduction * Part I: Balance at Risk * Ships in the Desert * The Shadow Our Future Throws * Climate and Civilization: A Short History * Buddha‘s Breath * If the Well Goes Dry * Skin Deep * Seeds of Privation * The Wasteland * Part II: The Search for Balance * Self-Stewardship * Eco-nomics: Truth or Consequences * We Are What We Use ...
Oct 31, 2006 · Earth in the Balance. : Albert Gore, Al Gore. Rodale Books, Oct 31, 2006 - Nature - 407 pages. Re-released on the heels of Al Gores #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth, comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller, Earth in the Balance. First published in 1992, it helped place the environment on the national agenda; now ...
Jan 1, 1992 · Earth in the Balance does not shrink from the magnitude and painfulness of the conflicts YAs will soon inherit, but it also gives encouragement, offering the possibility of resolution. A passionate yet clearheaded exposition of a worldwide crisis is the starting point of this courageous book.
Earth in the Balance. : Global warming. The deteriorating ozone layer. The rapid destruction of the world's rain forests. Rising carbon dioxide levels. This bestselling work on our planet's environmental crisis gives a shocking account of just how serious all of these problems have become. New foreword by the author.
The key message from. Earth in the Balance is that to solve global environmental problems, little good will come from reacting to the symptoms of environmental degra. dation or choosing a "solution" because of its political attractiveness.7 The science, economics, and politics of the root causes of the problem.
A word about organization: Earth in the Balance is divided into three sections. The first describes some dimensions of a global environmental crisis, the second addresses "the search for balance" and the third proposes "a new common purpose" and a "global Marshall Plan" for the environment. In the reading, sections one
