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The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
Paul K. Conkin
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Description for The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
The present era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, and communications, seems to document unparalleled human achievement. Yet when we examine the long-term implications, it becomes clear that an ever-growing number of humans have threatened the delicate environmental balance that sustains life on this planet. The past century may be remembered not as a period of great progress but as one marked by unrestrained consumption and failure to come close to a sustainable use of the earth's limited natural resources. In The State of the Earth, noted historian Paul K. Conkin provides a ... Read more
The present era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, and communications, seems to document unparalleled human achievement. Yet when we examine the long-term implications, it becomes clear that an ever-growing number of humans have threatened the delicate environmental balance that sustains life on this planet. The past century may be remembered not as a period of great progress but as one marked by unrestrained consumption and failure to come close to a sustainable use of the earth's limited natural resources. In The State of the Earth, noted historian Paul K. Conkin provides a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813192253
SKU
V9780813192253
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About Paul K. Conkin
Paul K. Conkin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of numerous books, including A Revolution Down on the Farm, The Southern Agrarians, and When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals.
Reviews for The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
This is a powerful and timely introduction to global ecological issues. It deserves to be read alongside other recent ecological classics such as J. R. McNeill's Something New Under the Sun or Jared Diamond's Collapse. - DAVID CHRISTIAN, author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History ""Conkin offers a concerned but calm, scientifically informed but reader-friendly, guide to ... Read more