Changing the Global Environment: Perspectives on Human Involvement

by John E. Estes, Daniel B. Botkin, Angelo A. Orio, et al.

Book Overview

In the last human generation we have learned that life existed on our earth for more than three billion years, yet man has done more to change the earth and its ability to support life in the last few centuries than preceding life forms have over hundreds of millions of years. And nearly all of these changes were brought about as unforeseen or unconsidered side-effects of our technologies. The editors of this book feel that rather than accepting environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0121187314
• ISBN13: 9780121187316
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 459 Pages