Our dying planet an ecologist's view of the crisis we face /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sale, Peter F.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Series:Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Information : what we are doing to our world: Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs
  • Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem: The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature
  • Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do: What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the hum.