The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues

by Lester R. Brown and The Worldwatch Institute

Book Overview

A new collection of articles drawn from World Watch magazine, winner of an Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for investigative reporting. A collection of the best and most-requested articles from the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning magazine, World Watch. What ails the earth and how can we fix it? People all over the world are wrestling with this question, and requesting reliable information on the nature of the environmental threats and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393317536
• ISBN13: 9780393317534
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A great review of problems around the world

Covers the main environmental issues facing us today in an easy to read style free of technical jargon. Although it covers many different topics, it is still able to include some great, detailed examples.

Mandatory reading for all humans living today.

Well researched and thought out analysis of the major survival issues facing humans, and the planet in general. Also discusses possibilities for preventing, or at least alleviating, these problems - some points for hope. Reading this will make you reconsider your actions and behaviour in how you impact the rest of the world.