[PDF] Poisoning Planet Earth eBook

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615305572

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Although industrialization and modernization have dramatically improved the quality of our lives, they have also largely contributed to the destruction of our natural resources by engendering waste and creating depletion through overuse. As the world’s population continues to grow and consume, litter, chemicals, and a host of other harmful products overrun our land, air, and water. This intriguing volume examines the various pollutants and human activities that threaten the natural world, with a special look at deforestation and desertification.

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1760110469

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The author of the acclaimed The Coming Famine sounds a wake up call: we cannot rely on governments or industry to clean up the toxic manmade chemicals we've surrounded ourselves with, it's up to us to repair our poisoned planet We want things to be cheap, convenient, and useful. Our food arrives contaminated with pesticides and wastes, wrapped in plastic made of hormone-disrupting chemicals. We bathe and dress our children in petrochemicals. Even our coffee contains miniscule traces of arsenic, cup by cup adding to the toxins accumulating in our bodies. Man-made chemicals are creating a silent epidemic. Our children are sicker; cancer, obesity, allergies, and mental health issues are on the rise in adults; and, frighteningly, we may be less intelligent than previous generations. A poisoned planet is the price we pay for our lifestyle, but Julian Cribb shows we have the tools to clean it up and create a healthier, safer future for us all.

Author : Sherman Hollar Associate Editor, Compton’s by Britannica
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615305084

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Examines the pollutants and human activities threatening the natural world and looks at deforestation and desertification.

Author : Julian Cribb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108944272

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Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.

Author : Oliver Trager
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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Examines environmental issues through the words and images of the nation's leading editorial writers and cartoonists.

Author : August Greeley
Publisher : PowerKids Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781435836976

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In our world today, pollution is a major concern. Pollution affects everyone. Chemical pollutants have even been found in Antarctica! This book explores pollution, what causes it, what it does to us and our environment, and what we can do to stop it. Readers will be inspired to do their part to help end pollution.

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1631490834

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"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

Author : David Steinman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 1993-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9780517104118

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Here is a thoroughly researched guide to the foods that are safest and the ones that are most dangerous in each of the major food groups. "From the Trade Paperback edition.