Rebalancing Our Climate : The Future Starts Today, Hardcover by Rohling, Eelc...

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Publication Year: 2021 Item Width: 5.9 in Genre: Nature, Technology & Engineering ISBN: 9780197502556 Book Title: Rebalancing Our Climate : the Future Starts Today Item Height: 0.9 in Item Length: 8.4 in Topic: Environmental / General, General gtin13: 9780197502556 Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Format: Hardcover Author: Eelco J. Rohling Number of Pages: 320 Pages Illustrator: Yes Language: English Item Weight: 17.6 Oz

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Rebalancing Our Climate : The Future Starts Today, Hardcover by Rohling, Eelco J., ISBN 0197502555, ISBN-13 9780197502556, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Over recent decades, a wide variety of studies and assessment reports has portrayed a stark picture of humanity's detrimental impacts on our planet's life and environmental health. Climate change is at the heart of many of these impacts. This cannot be allowed to continue, given the relentless human population growth and ever-expanding energy and resource consumption. We have but one planet, and its ecosystem services are essential to our survival. But the doomsday scenario can still be averted; humanity stands at a crossroads where it must take the route of sustainable behavior. Decisive action can still make a significant difference to climate change. This is humanity's greatest challenge. To have any chance of success, however, the time to act can bedelayed no longer. Instead, it is right now: today is the future. This book documents a wealth of ways to adjust the trajectory of climate change. It outlines measures to drive massive reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and to reflect part of the incoming energy from the Sun. For all measures, th evaluates both advantages and disadvantages. Finally, it discusses the need to protect ourselves from impacts that have become inevitable already, and looks at how society may be driven to get the job done. In short, this book provides powerful facts and arguments to support informed choices"--