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Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis
Healing the Planet Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis Author:Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich This catalogue of global gloom is pierced by few solutions worthy of the authors' stature as leading environmentalists. Healing on a planetary scale, the Erlichs ( The Population Explosion ) demonstrate, will require worldwide management of population, energy consumption and technology by scientists and political economists. The thesis is we... more »ll argued, with 65 pages of references and notes--but the reader is left grasping for places to begin the treatment. The Erlichs, however, are more concerned with rigorous, almost academic analysis of "the more general problem of assuring the continuance of ecosystem services" and its counterpart, "the human predicament." Readers are given a course on the biological crisis zones, including summaries of global warming, "unsustainable" agriculture and a compact chapter on energy and the environment. For most readers, these alarms will seem like an echo of many other recent books.« less