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In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Secretary of State for Energy under Margaret Thatcher, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that the conventional wisdom on the subject is suspect on...
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El presente libro consta de cuatro capítulos que abordan la dinámica boscosa y sus conductores, la función de las áreas protegidas en la conservación de los bosques y, finalmente, el deshielo glaciar en el departamento de Boyacá. La dinámica boscosa y sus conductores se estudian inicialmente para 2001-2010 con un sensor de teledetección de resolución espacial grueso como lo es el MODIS. En el Capítulo 2 se estudia tan solo la variación...
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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously...
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Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a "living system." Through them, author Linda Booth Sweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time. A Balinese folktale tells the story of a gecko who cannot sleep because of the sparks from a firefly. He traces the cause of his complaint from one animal to another, and...
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In this Age of Misinformation, an increasing number of people seem to be unable or unwilling to tell facts from fiction, communicate effectively, learn from the past, think independently, or have fun with knowledge. CAUTION! Reading This Book Can Make You Think provides challenging exercises for out-of-shape brains and sharpens modern day survival skills. Is it time for a mental tune-up? Do you know: * The key difference between Bias and Prejudice?*...
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Choose the red pill and
Escape the Meatrix
What if you suddenly discovered you were trapped inside a dystopian cult of oppression, murder, and profit-and that your greatest source of calories was an artificially invented diet created by powerful lobbies, designed to line the pockets of the 1% at the cost of your own health and the planet's very survival?
What would you do?
Escape the Meatrix chronicles Stuart Waldner's eye-opening battle against...
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This book is a pioneering effort to meet the challenging requirements of understanding environmental pollution. The book has been written especially to fill the need for a one-volume general discussion of the major types of environmental pollution-air, water, noise, solid waste, thermal, marine, and radiation pollution and their adverse effects on man and on the environment. Historical and current statistics have been included mainly from Indian,...
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La industria siderúrgica genera un sinnúmero de residuos sólidos contaminantes. Las escorias básicas (blancas) producidas durante el afino del acero en el horno cuchara, es un residuo que amerita ser investigado y valorado en sus efectos por el impacto que representa ambientalmente su disposición final y manejo. Agronómicamente se atribuye a las escorias básicas un alto potencial para controlar la acidez de suelos agrícolas limitados en su...
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Environmental Biology is designed to arrange diverse areas of environmental biology in a coherent manner. The subject matter, both as regards the arrangement of chapters as well as contents is designed to meet the requirements of the students in several Indian universities. The present book New Dimensions of Environmental Biology has been written especially to suit the need of undergraduate and post graduate students of the Indian Universities. This...
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One of the key tenets of the environmental movement is the need for greater efficiency in our use of dwindling natural resources, especially coal, natural gas, and oil. If our products are designed to be more energy efficient, so the thinking goes, our environmental impacts will be reduced and our fossil fuels will last longer. In this surprising new look at sustainability and conservation, environmentalist Steve Hallett argues that this thinking...
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Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis Preview: In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she's lived and the knowledge she's learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development that stretches from 1997 to 2008, the bulk of the narrative follows Jahren from her first appointment as a professor in Atlanta to her current job at the University of Hawaii. Navigating...
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What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life-human and nonhuman-will not go on unless we do everything we can...
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Our planet is over 4.5 billion years old. We have managed to single-handedly increase global warming, destroy the rainforest, mismanage our fossil fuels, contaminate our oceans, poison the environment with hazardous waste, and politically flee from the tears of our earth. Moving forward the entire global population needs to take action and make "ecochoices" that reduce our individual, corporate and urban carbon footprints. Call it a common "eco-friendly...
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Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the deteriorating environment of the Arctic by the Pew Charitable Trusts (the first time Pew has given such a grant to a journalist), Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Marla Cone traveled across the Arctic, from Greenland...
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We're all prone to excess, even in discussions of excess, observes biologist and science writer Marlene Zuk. This year has been marked by another rainfall of books about humans destroying the environment in which they evolved, a few about the a priori Darwinian mismatch between humans and their so-called "natural" environments, and a great many more about the even greater mismatch between humans and their constructed environments. This month's Digital...
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The effects of climate change are reshaping the Arctic profoundly. Landscapes are being radically transformed, animal habitats are disappearing, and natural resources are being revealed to an energy-starved world. Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik took eleven trips throughout the north to document this rapidly changing land, gaining unprecedented access to scientific expeditions, native communities and security and sovereignty experts. The product...
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What interests you most about the environment? Are you concerned about water pollution? Air quality? Energy production? Forest fires? Space exploration? Your interests and questions matter.
Illustrated with more than 800 photographs, charts, and graphics, this practical guide allows you to start with your curiosity and follow your questions to answers about the environment. The book is organized into units based on the five classical scientific elements...
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RADIOACTIVE CLOUDS OF DEATH OVER UTAH From 1950 to the 1958 moratorium on atmospheric testing, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated over 100 atomic bombs at the Nevada Test Site. The inhabitants of St. George, Utah--the so-called downwinders--were repeatedly in the fly zone of these toxic, windblown clouds--so much so that St. George became known nationwide as Fallout City, USA. In the fall of 1979, Stewart Udall, along with a team of lawyers, came...
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The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is a modern classic of critical philosophy and political economy, renowned for its depth and comprehensive research. It provides a step-by-step diagnosis of the continuing economic collapse in the US and Europe and has had an enormous influence on new visions of economic alternatives.
John McMurtry argues that our world disorder of unending crises is the predictable result of a cancerous economic system multiplying...
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