World Without Us

Politics & Social Sciences

Alan Weisman

Social Sciences

Picador Usa/St Martin's Pres

<p>Weisman and Dusard bring alive the people and geography of the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as the issues that divide each nation. 48 black-and-white photographs.</p>

LA Frontera: The United States Border with Mexico

History

Americas

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The World Without Us

Macmillan USA

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.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 vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature.But with a million more of us every 4 1/2 days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth--and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth?Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful.By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.

World

Little

We, Immortals

Pocket

<p>Alan Weisman looks to the future to discover what the world might be like, and how it would change if humans disappeared right now, for good. In the current age of anxiety over our impact on the earth's climate and environment, this timely book offers an intriguing glimpse of what the real legacy of our time on the planet may be. How would the natural world respond if it were suddenly relieved of the burden of humanity? Would the climate return to where it was before we fired up our engines? Could nature ever obliterate all traces of human civilization? How would it undo our largest buildings and public works, and could it reduce our myriad plastics and synthetics to benign, basic elements? And what about architecture and art? What will be our most enduring legacy? This groundbreaking book examines areas of the world that have been abandoned or never occupied by humans to see how they have fared without us and looks beyond to discover whether, and for how long, our largest cities, biggest achievements and most devastating mistakes will last after we are gone. In doing so it wrestles with some of the key concerns of our time and reveals a picture of the future that is both illuminating and terrifying.</p>

Picador

Virgin Books

Ahead of the Copenhagen conference on climate change dispatches_endgame is devoted to the environment: the follies that brought us to this brink, the small steps we can take in the attempt to mitigate disaster and the adaptions that we need to make in order to continue as a global society dependent on our natural resources. Climate change will find us whether we are in first world Arizona or third world Bangladesh. Alan Weisman pens the title piece after leaving his native, parched home state for the damper and more secure tracts of New England. In our First World comfort zone the battle for water, geography and topography is winning over technology. Seven thousand miles away in Bangladesh the battle is already lost and the nation must adapt to its new environment; it is too late for mitigation. Small inroads of change are being made with mixed success through regulation and legislation. California state s groundbreaking law, AB32, targeting lower carbon emissions is heralded but the regulating of the fishing industry has been largely unsuccessful at a time when rampant over fishing is leading to the disappearance of many species.

Dispatches D5: Endgame

Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Andrew Marshall

David Liittschwager

Philip Blenkinsop

Balazs Gardi

Tim Hirsch

Jane Kay

Jeff Danziger

Dispatches Corporation

Hachette Audio

Countdown

Business & Money

Economics

Piper Verlag GmbH

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