Reclaiming our planet : how environmental history can help solve the climate crisis / Alexander Gates.
| Author/creator | Gates, Alexander E., 1957- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024] |
| Description | ix, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The reality of climate change -- Rachel Carson, DDT and banned pesticides -- Get the lead out -- Fixing a hole in the ozone -- The air that we breathe -- Supertanker superaccidents -- Burning rivers and urban surface water pollution -- Pollution time bombs -- Current climate change efforts -- What else can be done? -- It isn't just climate change -- If we ignore it, will it go away? |
| Abstract | "The climate crisis has been portrayed as deadly to humans, and it could be. However, serious environmental and resulting public health crises have run rampant for a century or more. This book looks at how several of these crises developed and were miraculously resolved and then compares how the climate crisis is being addressed"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Gates, Alexander E., 1957- Reclaiming our planet Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024] 9781538179680 |
| LCCN | 2023058576 |
| ISBN | 9781538179673 |
| ISBN | 1538179679 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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