The big picture : reflections on science, humanity, and a quickly changing planet

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    • Suzuki, David
    • Taylor, Dave Robert

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The big picture : reflections on science, humanity, and a quickly changing planet

David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor

David Suzuki Foundation : Greystone Books : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, ©2009

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Science matters

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

A collection of columns published under the title Science matters

Includes index

Summary: "Looks beyond our environmental problems to examine the forces that prevent real change from occurring. Whether he's discussing how to reconcile economy with ecology, why a warmer world will result in more poison ivy, or why we might need to start eating jelly-fish for supper, David Suzuki points the direction we must go as a society."--Jacket

収録内容

  • 1. Blinded by Science: Research and the perils of ignorance
  • 2. Smarter Than Your Average Planet: Interconnections in the biosphere
  • 3. Getting to Know the Joneses: Protecting the diversity of life on Earth
  • 4. Putting Mother Nature on the Payroll: Natural services and economics
  • 5. Hot Hot Heat: Global warming and climate change
  • 6. You Can't Get There from Here: Car culture and global transportation
  • 7. Jellyfish
  • It's What's for Dinner: Feeding the planet in the twenty-first century
  • 8. True Cost of Gadgets: Technology and the culture of consumerism
  • 9. Lights, Camera, Sound Bite: Social change and the media
  • 10. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Public policy for a sustainable planet

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Whether he's discussing how to reconcile economy with ecology, why a warmer world will result in more poison ivy, why Britney Spears gets more hits on Google than global warming does, or why we might need to start eating jellyfish for supper, David Suzuki points the direction we must take as a society if we hope to meet the environmental challenges we face in our still-young century. Covering suburban sprawl, sustainable transportation, food shortages, biodiversity, technology, public policy, and more, The Big Picture not only identifies the problems we face but proposes solid, science-based solutions. These engaging essays look beyond environmental challenges to examine the forces that are preventing real change from occurring. Together they tell the story of a species struggling to come to grips with its own biological nature, a nature we must ultimately embrace to live in balance with the systems that sustain us.

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