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Title:

Hope on Earth : a conversation / Paul R. Ehrlich & Michael Charles Tobias ; with additional comments by John Harte.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 188 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Ecology.
Environmental ethics.
Global environmental change.
Nature conservation.

Other Authors:

Ehrlich, Paul R.
Tobias, Michael.
Harte, John, 1939-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-188)

Contents:

Ethical ambiguities -- Pragmatic idealism -- The choices we make : moving forward in spite of contradictions -- Getting one's priorities right : you owe it to yourself -- The biological future : climate change in the Rockies -- The Euphydryas question -- The lesson of acorns : change is ubiquitous -- Appendix. Essential points for policy makers.

Summary:

A lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world's leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michael Charles Tobias, whose over 40 books and 150 films have been read and/or viewed throughout the world.

ISBN:

022611368X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226113685 (cloth : alk. paper) :

LCCN:

2013035831

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CJPC482 -- Williamsburg Public Library (Williamsburg)