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

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

Gaviotas

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

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