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The Planetary Emergency
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Author : Kent D. Shifferd
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The Planetary Emergency written by Kent D. Shifferd and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Science categories.
Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis--the human-caused destruction of the planet's life support systems. Deteriorating climate bringing super storms, mass forest fires, melting glaciers, droughts, extreme heat and rising seas, a decline in food production, soil loss, water pollution and declining fisheries all threaten the future of life on earth with a looming extinction event not seen for 60 million years. Beginning in the 17th century, we developed a civilization based on radical materialism, exploitation of natural resources and the myth of endless economic growth. For all its technological wonders, this "hypercivilization" has proven unsustainable. This book explores ways we can create an "ecocivilization" compatible with the laws and limits of nature--a new way of living already developing, with new technologies, new forms of social organization and a new story about ourselves and the Earth.
An Inconvenient Truth
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Author : Al Gore
language : en
Publisher: Rodale
Release Date : 2006-05-24
An Inconvenient Truth written by Al Gore and has been published by Rodale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-24 with Science categories.
The former vice-president details the factors contributing to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster.
An Inconvenient Truth The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It
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Author : Albert Gore, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2006-04-30
An Inconvenient Truth The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It written by Albert Gore, Jr. and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-30 with Science categories.
A Global Warning . A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide. Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. "Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message," said Guggenheim. An Inconvenient Truth is not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share. "It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely," said Gore.
Food In A Planetary Emergency
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Author : Dora Marinova
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2022-04-11
Food In A Planetary Emergency written by Dora Marinova and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-11 with Business & Economics categories.
This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus. This book takes a planetary health perspective which explores the links between natural systems and human wellbeing implying that there is need for united actions to achieve important environmental and population health co-benefits. This book outlines that the foundation of planetary health is sustainability. It addresses environment and climate change emergency as a global agenda, however, emphasises the urgency of the sustainability perspective which integrates a wide spectrum of issues that require integrated solutions to offer better prospects for humanity. This book drives this argument further through the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where food is not just SDG2 but transcends all 17 goals. This book tackles the problems of food production and consumption at a global, industry and individual level linking it to topics related to the natural environment, climate change, waste, marketing, new ways of producing food and providing alternative proteins, mitigating non-communicable diseases, flexitarianism and the role of Generation Z in the emerging dietary choices. This book benefits readers with understanding the importance and intricacy of their dietary choices at a point in time when our planet is facing an emergency triggered by long-term dependence on fossil fuels and artificial fertilisers but also by the ways we have provided food. However, this book also delivers the message that safeguarding and sustaining planetary health is possible.
Political Theology Of The Earth
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Author : Catherine Keller
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Political Theology Of The Earth written by Catherine Keller and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with Science categories.
Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt’s political theology of the sovereign exception sheds light on present ideological warfare; racial, ethnic, economic, and sexual conflict; and hubristic anthropocentrism. If the politics of exceptionalism are theological in origin, she asks, should we not enlist the world’s religious communities as part of the resistance? Keller calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice. When we are confronted by populist, authoritarian right wings founded on white male Christian supremacism, we can counter with a messianically charged, often unspoken theology of the now-moment, calling for a complex new public. Such a political theology of the earth activates the world’s entangled populations, joined in solidarity and committed to revolutionary solutions to the entwined crises of the Anthropocene.
Flourish
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Author : Michael Pawlyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Flourish written by Michael Pawlyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with categories.
Breaking Boundaries
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Author : Johan Rockström
language : en
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Breaking Boundaries written by Johan Rockström and has been published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Science categories.
On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our future. The authors, whose work is the subject of a new Netflix documentary released in summer 2021 and narrated by Sir David Attenborough, reveal the full scale of the planetary emergency we face - but also how we can stabilise Earth's life support system. The necessary change is within our power if we act now. In 2009, scientists identified nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth stable, ranging from biodiversity to ozone. Beyond these boundaries lurk tipping points. To stop short of these tipping points, the 2020s must see the fastest economic transition in history. This book demonstrates how societies are reaching positive tipping points that make this transition possible: Activism groups such as Extinction Rebellion, or the schoolchildren inspired by Greta Thunberg demand political action; countries are committing to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions; and one tipping point has even already passed - the price of clean energy has dropped below that of fossil fuels. Inside the pages of this scientifically-led publication, world-leading climate-change experts explain the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. - Expert-authored text in an accessible style for both adults, and children ages 14+ - A breakdown of the 9 planetary boundaries for relative stability on Earth, ranging from biodiversity to the ozone layer - An exploration of climate "tipping points" - good and bad - Stunning infographics and images visualising the problems and solutions to climate change - Contains detailed and unique images of Earth produced by Globaïa, the world's leading visualisers of human impact
International Seminar On Nuclear War And Planetary Emergencies
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Author : R. Ragaini
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2011
International Seminar On Nuclear War And Planetary Emergencies written by R. Ragaini and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Science categories.
The ecology of international security / Charles D. Ferguson. Assessment of RDD event medical response, recovery, and mitigation in a world of one science / Annette Sobel. Defeating religious terrorism - what will it take? / Pervez Hoodbhoy. Terrorism threats due to weapons of mass disturbance / Friedrich Steinhausler. Cell phones, texting, position reporting, and self-assembly in emergency response management / Robert V. Duncan -- 10. Special session : lectio magistralis. Why science is needed in everyday life / Ignazio La Russa -- 11. Climate. Focus : data, mathematical structures and predictions. Carbon dioxide, friend or foe. William Happer. Climate sensitivity : various approaches / Richard S. Lindzen. Climategate and the inquiries / Stephen McIntyre. Energy legislation in the USA / Richard Wilson -- 12. WFS general meeting. PMP reports - debate and conclusions. Permanent monitoring panel on motivations for terrorism / Lord John Alderdice. 2010 progress report of the MCD-2/7 project and 2011 research project. East-Africa AIDS Research Centre at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe Uganda / Franco M. Buonaguro. Mother and child health PMP : maternal and child mortality is a planetary emergency, report of 2010 activities / Nathalie Charpak, J.G. Ruiz and S.D. Leon-Mendoza. Permanent monitoring panel report on limits of development / Christopher D. Ellis. Pollution permanent monitoring panel - 2010 annual report / Lorne G. Everett. Report of the energy permanent monitoring panel / William Fulkerson, J, Ongena and C. Difiglio. PMP report for cosmic objects / Walter F. Huebner. Annual report permanent monitoring panel on mitigation of terrorist acts / Alan Leigh Moore, Jr. Information security PMP report / Henning Wegener and Jody R. Westby -- 13. Seminar participants -- 14. Ettore Majorana Erice Science for Peace Prize
Global Emergency Actions
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Author : Alan Wittbecker
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-12
Global Emergency Actions written by Alan Wittbecker and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-12 with Science categories.
Using a eutopian framework based on the forms and values of traditional cultures, and applied ecological systems reasoning, global ecological design, and common sense to propose emergency actions to avoid converging catastrophes and to restore balance to the planet. The framework requires new institutions, laws, and taxes to promote equity between individuals, communities and nations. This book is a list of actions that should be taken to respond to our current global emergency, which is a result of developmental changes in the planet in its solar environment, as well as in the development of climate and the biosphere, and furthermore with the development of human cultures that have accelerated changes to the composition and stability of ecosystems and human settlements-to avoid catastrophe. Many catastrophes are longterm, large-scale, slow, incomprehensible, and invisible, and they have been developing for thousands of years. This requires a change in our perception and adoption of an attitude of catastrophe, which may be necessary before we can take any actions. It is also unlikely that we can respond just as individuals or turn over responsibility to a single agency or government. We have to work on every level, from individual and community to nations, confederations and a global government. Most of these suggested actions are based on a general knowledge of ecological change and human development. Many are based on the historical stability of traditional cultures, which have survived within a variety of limits, including weather, vegetative shifts and overuse of resources. Some are based on preliminary studies of long-term environmental changes and on human adaptability. Some are based on global ecological designs. A few are intelligent guesses, and a few may be expressions of a wild hope. Some of the actions may seem contradictory and counter-intuitive. Others, such as some new forms of taxes or rules of exploitation (especially regarding pollutions and biocides), are only temporary and are meant to achieve a quick effective balance; when they are no longer necessary or useful, they can be removed. And, still others, such as an ecological basis of exploitation and distribution, recognition of real ecological, psychological, and social limits, and new forms of conflict resolution, may be always necessary as part of a complete human ethics, economics and politics. These actions depend on a massive, cooperative effort. They promise a greater equalization of opportunities to use resources that are becoming more rare and expensive. They use openness and a joint sense of responsibility. However, these are just suggestions to be tried and refined-then discarded or supplemented by others. Any plan for emergencies has to be flexible and adaptable. It is crucial to avoid committing to actions that make things worse. This effort does not mean that we should stop working or give up our jobs and dig holes to hide in, but it does mean that some jobs and some industries should be abandoned, and others need to be created and applied; and it means that every effort needs to be tied to the long-term goal of designing and making the planet habitable for all forms of life. It does entail sacrifice, but most sacrifice can be borne if everyone is participating and if the goals are shared and desirable. As with any medical approach, we have to let the planet and biosphere do most of the work to be successful, although our participation, restraint and cocreation are critical, now.
Breaking Boundaries
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Author : Johan Rockstrom
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Breaking Boundaries written by Johan Rockstrom and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Science categories.
An accessible summary of the planetary emergency and how to turn things around, from authors whose work is the focus of a new Netflix documentary narrated by David Attenborough. On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of “planetary stewardship” – a rethinking of our relationship with our planet – and plots a new course for our future. The authors, whose work is the subject of a new documentary due to air on Netflix summer 2021, reveal the full scale of the planetary emergency we face – but also how we can stabilize Earth’s life support system. The necessary change is within our power, if we act now. In 2009, scientists identified nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth stable, ranging from biodiversity to ozone. Beyond these boundaries lurk tipping points. In order to stop short of these tipping points, the 2020s must see the fastest economic transition in history. This book demonstrates how societies are reaching positive tipping points that make this transition possible: groups such as the schoolchildren led by Greta Thunberg demand political action; countries are committing to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions; and one tipping point has even already passed – the price of clean energy has dropped below that of fossil fuels. The story is accompanied by unique images of Earth produced by Globaïa, the world’s leading visualizers of human impact.