Humanity’s Humanity’s Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth’s global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.
Walter K. Dodds depicts in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior. He describes trends in population growth, resource use, and global environmental impacts of the past two centuries, such as greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, water pollution, and species extinctions and introductions. Dodds also addresses less familiar developments, such as the spread of antibiotic resistant genes in bacteria and the concentration of pesticides in the Arctic and other remote ecosystems. He identifies fundamental human activities that have irreversible effects on the environment and draws on recent social science and game theory results to explain why people use more than their share. Past behavior indicates that as resources grow scarce, humans will escalate their use of what remains instead of managing their consumption. Humanity’s Footprint paints a lively but ultimately sobering picture of our environmental predicament. Dodds calls for a consilient approach to socioenvironmental restoration that draws on new thinking from across disciplines to develop sustainable solutions to global environmental problems.
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Footprint: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Extinction
- Entertaining to read and easy to understand
- Engaging examples and illustrations help explain the science of global warming
- Offers ideas to increase your energy awareness
- Explains the most sensible alternatives to fossil fuels
- Shows that we can stop global warming if we act now
Footprint is an entertaining and easy to understand guide to global warming, energy awareness, and renewable energy. This is how readers describe the book: “Whereas Al Gore, James Hansen and others focus on a political or a scientific solution, Footprint focuses on the role of the individual as an energy consumer. Dozens of energy saving tips, most of which cost little or nothing, demonstrate how Americans can reduce their personal carbon footprint by at least 50% regardless of where and how they live. With charming and captivating illustrations this delightful 260-page journey takes the reader from energy oblivion to energy awareness. The journey ends on a strong note of hope with a glimpse of the renewable energy future that is just around the corner as more and more of us heed the call.” (by Richard Taylor, Business Owner, Potomac, MD) “Fans of Hot, Flat and Crowded will find this book much easier to pass on and recommend to friends and colleagues interested in learning more…This book would be an excellent resource in science and math classrooms [because it] keeps the reader engaged.” (by Kate Lundin, Environmental Science MBA) “Hooray! Here is a great handbook for those of us who prefer the simple, the practical, and the truth, written…by a person that has been in the trenches for the last 30 years resolutely talking the talk and walking the walk. His message, though not new, is clear: if we want to change the outcome of the looming future, we must change ourselves. If you and I could reduce our footprint as much as John Patterson has reduced his, the future would be a whole lot rosier.” (by Gary Munkoff, Editor, Green Living Journal) Footprint is a must read for anyone who wants to understand why top scientists all over the world are so concerned about global warming and climate change.
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