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The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change
The Forgiving Air Understanding Environmental Change Author:Richard Somerville, University of California Press The Forgiving Air is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change. Written by a scientist for nonscientists, this primer humanizes the great environmental issues of our timethe hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollutionand explains everything in accessible prose. A new preface takes into accoun... more »t developments in environmental policy that have occurred since publication. Highlighting the interrelatedness of human activity and global change, Richard Somerville stresses the importance of an educated public in a world where the role of science is increasingly critical.« less