Countdown : our last, best hope for a future on Earth? / Alan Weisman.

In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this visi...

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Main Author: Weisman, Alan (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Overpopulation.
Population ecology.
Ecology.
Civilization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
NATURE / Ecology.
HISTORY / Civilization.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects.
Physical Description:xii, 513 pages : illustrations, chart, photographs ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A weary land of four questions
  • A world busting its seams
  • Body counts and the paradox of food
  • Carrying capacity and the cradle
  • Island world
  • Holy See
  • Gorillas in our midst
  • The great wall of people
  • The sea
  • the bottom
  • The world unraveling
  • The Ayatollah giveth and taketh away
  • Shrink and prosper
  • Tomorrow
  • Safe sex
  • Parkland Earth
  • the world with fewer of us.