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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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"Plastic is everywhere you look. Our computers and children's toys are made out of it, and our water and slices of American cheese are packaged in it. But why is there so much and what is it doing to our bodies? Is it possible to use less plastic and be happier and healthier? In Plastic Purge, author Mike SanClements presents the history and science behind plastics, then teaches you how to cut down on the amount of plastic in your life. As an ecologist,...
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By looking backward at the course of great extinctions, a paleontologist sees what the future holds.
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists. During the 1990s and the early part of this century, a great battle was fought between those who thought that death...
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Get the Summary of Douglas W. Tallamy's ‘Nature's Best Hope’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step...
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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 long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative...
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Les services rendus par les écosystèmes contribuent autant au bien-être des individus et des collectivités qu'à l'activité économique. Mais quelle est la valeur de ces actifs naturels non marchands? Une demande sociale, entrepreneuriale et institutionnelle croissante se manifeste pour de nouveaux indicateurs économiques permettant la mesure et le suivi des variations dans l'état des écosystèmes. Cette demande se traduit par une intégration...
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alarmist (pre 2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic.alarmist (post 2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere.His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it' s critical.In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand' s North Island....
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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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Sabiduría Conectada: Historias de todos los tiempos sobre los sistemas vivientes reúne doce cuentos de diversas culturas, cada uno de los cuales revela un ejemplo único de un "sistema viviente". A través de ellos, la autora Linda Booth Sweeney muestra que lo que hoy llamamos pensamiento de sistemas tiene una larga historia entre nosotros. Un cuento popular balinés narra la historia de una salamandra que no puede dormir debido a las chispas de...
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Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists and activists about the rainforest and what should...
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The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death...
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Handbook of Environmental Sciences-Complete Questions & Answers is specially developed for Candidate under Graduate and Post Graduate Students. The Book is also equally useful for the NTA-UGC NET JRF/SET/SLET (PAPER 2) and any country Services Competitive Examination if the basic environmental science is include in the syllabus. Based on the latest pattern and syllabus, the book will prove useful for the study, practice during precious moments before...
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Environmental Education is rather a new academic discipline, which has joined wider popularity these days. The present volume entitled Teacher's Handbook of Environmental Education, gives an elaborate treatment to many vital issues pertaining to the theme. The main topics included herein are: Environmental Setup; The Backdrop; The Fundamentals; Teaching Methods; Teaching Aims; Behavioural Aspects; The Settlements; Problem of Pollution; Demographic...
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En Biodigestor describimos primero de qué está compuesto el biogás y nos referimos a algunos descubrimientos científicos que contribuyeron a entender cómo se produce. Posteriormente explicamos cómo funcionan los biodigestores anaeróbicos, tecnología diseñada para producir biogás, y su uso en algunas regiones del mundo.
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