The Big Picture (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor look beyond our environmental problems to examine the forces that are preventing real change. Whether they're discussing how to reconcile economy with ecology or why we may need to start eating jellyfish for dinner, they point in the direction we must go if we hope to meet the environmental challenges we face in the twenty-first century.

Covering suburban sprawl, sustainable transportation, food shortages, biodiversity, technology, public policy, and more, The Big Picture identifies the problems facing our world and proposes solid, science-based solutions.

Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.

Contents

Preface

1. Blinded by science: Research and the perils of ignorance
2. Smarter than your average planet: Interconnections in the biosphere
3. Getting to know the Joneses: Protecting the diversity of life on Earth
4. Putting Mother Nature on the payroll: Natural services and economics
5. Hot hot heat: Global warming and climate change
6. You can't get there from here: Car culture and global transportation
7. Jellyfish -it's what's for dinner: Feeding the planet in the twenty-first century
8. The true cost of gadgets: Technology and the culture of consumerism
9. Lights, camera, sound bite: Social change and the media
10. Mr. Smith goes to Washington: Public policy for a sustainable planet

Final words

Acknowledgments
Index