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End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?
Anthony Barnosky
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Description for End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; J; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our oil, space or environment? What happens if these all become critical at once? End Game explores the origins of disease in densely populated areas of West Africa, witnesses raging fires in Colorado and explains how drought-induced food shortages are ... Read more
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our oil, space or environment? What happens if these all become critical at once? End Game explores the origins of disease in densely populated areas of West Africa, witnesses raging fires in Colorado and explains how drought-induced food shortages are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007548170
SKU
V9780007548170
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Ref
99-30
About Anthony Barnosky
Professors Anthony D. Barnosky and Elizabeth A. Hadly have been married and working together for nearly 25 years to uncover the scientific underpinnings that will help ensure a viable future for humanity. Anthony Barnosky is the Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California. A renowned paleobiologist, he has spent 30 years conducting research related to past planetary ... Read more
Reviews for End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?
`Just because we have collectively lost interest in the doom clock doesn't mean it has stopped ticking ... Barnosky and Hadly are serious players ... When tipping points are reached, the change can be violent as well as sudden ... you cannot fault the authors' determination to try to warn us' Newsweek `In `End Game', academics Anthony ... Read more