The Little Earth Book

by James Bruges and Editor-James Bruges

Now in its fourth edition and newly updated, The Little Earth Book contains original and stimulating essays that reveal how desperately vulnerable planet earth is, and how the actions and apathy of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1901970523
• ISBN13: 9781901970524
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Alastair Sawday Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.8" x 0.3" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Amazing

This book despite little, is a compact review of several sort of issues that matters to the present and future of our habitat. Each short chapter is a comprehensive description and analysis of the causes and possible solutions for the anthropogenic problems that we are producing to the earth.

You Need to Read This. Period.

Already a third of the planet's "natural wealth" has been lost.If everyone lived as we do in the US, it would take four earths to support us. In the last 50 years - with the intensive use of pesticides - the US has doubled the amount of crops lost to pests. Three-fourths of all plant species have become extinct since 1900. Environmental disasters have left 80 million people as refugees.The number of people living on $2 a day in the world has risen by 50% in the last 20 years. Genetically modified crops have farmers using more herbicides and pesticides, not less. 90% of the Earth's dwindling fresh water supply is consumed by industry alone. The top 1% of US households possesses more wealth than the entire bottom 95%. Commercial banks, not the central government, create the build of America's currency. The arms trade is America's most heavily subsidized industry.Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera... Concise, well-documented, and full of great references and links, discussions in this book range from nanotechnology to natural farming; from biomimicry to the patenting of life; from the future of oil and the hydrogen economy; from ecological footprints to global equity accounting schemes; from the arms trade to peace tools; from religion to sustainability; from eugenics to intuition and creativity; from antibiotics to genetic experimentation; from Christianity to Islam; from increasing economic inequality to universal basic income grants; from plutonium to persistent organic pollutants; and draws from a wide variety of sources, from Bill Clinton to Hildegard of Bingen. Were the book printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper, I would dare say it foot the recognition-of-global-ecocrisis-and-response bill perfectly. Oh, wait, it was. Another Disinformation Mindbomb!