Chasm Ahead

Peccei, Aurelio

Macmillan

This important, definitive report on the state of the human environment has been commissioned by the Stockholm Conference Secretariat and is intended to provide a conceptual framework for the proceedings of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. The goal of this report is to provide an entirely objective background for decision-making, and it is an important guide for the general reader. The book begins with the history of the environment. It discusses newly learned facts about the biosphere as they related to the ever-increasing environmental risks on international, regional, and local levels. Subsequent sections discuss the effects of these environmental problems on the world community, and identify the needs for international corrective actions. The last section serves as a summary and recapitulation.

Who Speaks for Earth?

Politics & Social Sciences

MYRDAL, Gunnar

WARD, BARBARA

HEYERDAHL, THOR

Dubos, Rene'

Zuckerman, Lord

Miro, Carmen

Social Sciences

W.W.Norton&Company

101 Pages for the Future

Sociology

Signet

<p>The authors offers Eastern and Western perspectives on ecology, environmental problems, war, international relations, and human development, and suggests solutions to the world's problems</p>

Before It Is Too Late

History

Ikeda, Daisaku

Gage, Richard L.

World

Kodansha USA Inc

Long before it became fashionable to talk of climate change, drought and water shortages, the authors of this lucid and trenchant dialogue were warning that planet earth was heading for uninhabitability. They exchange viewpoints and insights that have matured over many years of thought, study and reflection. One of the authors is a Westerner--a man of many parts, both wartime resistance fighter and leading industrialist, who founded one of the first think tanks to address seriously the human prospects for global survival. The other represents the philosophical and ethical perspectives of the East--a Buddhist leader who has visited country after country, campaigning tirelessly for the abolition of nuclear weapons and war in all its forms. Engaging constructively and imaginatively with such seemingly intractable problems as population growth, the decline of natural resources, desertification, pollution and deforestation, Ikeda and Peccei show that many of these problems are interrelated. Only be addressing them as part of a web of complex but combined issues, and by working together for peace and justice, can human beings expect to find lasting solutions. The best prospect for the future lies in an ethical revolution whereby humanity can find a fresh understanding of itself in holistic connection with, rather than separation and alienation from, the planet itself.

Before it is Too Late: A Dialogue (Echoes and Reflections)

Reference

I.B.Tauris

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