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With over half a million copies of Earth in the Balance sold, this timely re-issue benefits from a major new Foreword. It is a powerful and passionate analysis of the most crucial and far reaching issues confronting humanity. 'When I wrote this book, terms like global warming and greenhouse gases seemed exotic, unfamiliar, and unimportant to ...
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.
Human civilization must heal itself, psychologically and spiritually, if we are to heal our ailing environment and save the earth's ecology for future generations. Now reissued in hardcover with a new introduction bringing the material up-to-date, Vice President Gore's classic will, in the new millennium again be a clarion call to reflect on the fate of our planet.
28 de nov. de 2019 · Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit ... Argues that the engine of human progress now threatens to destroy the Earth unless humans can create a more "sustainable" solution from within the framework of society Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1992
1 de ene. de 1993 · Earth in the Balance. Unknown Binding – January 1, 1993. A passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore describes in this classic best-selling book how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us all. The book's groundbreaking analysis helped place the ...
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.
Figure 2.5.1 2.5. 1: Earth’s energy budget. Of all of the solar radiation reaching Earth, 30% is reflected back to space and 70% is absorbed by the Earth (47%) and atmosphere (23%). The heat absorbed by the land and oceans is exchanged with the atmosphere through conduction, radiation, and latent heat (phase change).
