America's Environmental Crisis (eBook)

Why We Are Winning the Battle but Losing the War to Avoid a Climate Catastrophe

Peter S. Wellenberger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
484 Seiten
Arts Ink Ltd DBACentral Park South Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-7352964-4-9 (ISBN)

Infos

For over twenty years Peter Wellenberger was the manager of the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve--a federal/state partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of New Hampshire under the N.H Fish and Game Department. His work included protecting over 10,000 acres of coastal lands in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and other private entities. In 2008, he was the recipient of the Dr. Nancy Foster Habitat Conservation Award. He also served as the first Great Bay/Piscataqua Waterkeeper and founded the Great Bay Stewards, a non-profit environmental group dedicated to protecting the Great Bay Estuary.In America's Environmental Crisis Peter shares his own experiences, as well as other short stories of climate change and nature preservation to shed light on the issues of climate change, and present some solutions.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter One

How We Got It All Wrong From the Start

Chapter Two

The Wildlife We Will Never Know

Chapter Three

The Robber Barons

Chapter Four

The Potato Fields Came Calling and the Rise of Suburbia

Chapter Five

1980s - The Decade of Greed

Chapter Six 

The Menace of Coal

Chapter Seven

1990s - The Decade of Missed Opportunities

Chapter Eight

How We Are Still Getting It All Wrong

Chapter Nine

Population Dynamics - Why Does Everyone Have to Live So Close Together?

Chapter Ten

Paradise No More

Chapter Eleven

Where Has All the Water Gone?     

Chapter Twelve

When the Cupboard is Bare

Chapter Thirteen

Our Waterways, Estuaries and Oceans in Peril

Chapter Fourteen

The Air We Breathe

Chapter Fifteen

The Lawyer Economy

Chapter Sixteen

Whose Side is God on Anyway?

Chapter Seventeen

Biodiversity on the Brink

Chapter Eighteen

Invaders on the Loose

Chapter Nineteen

Nuclear Power: The False Promise

Chapter Twenty

The Hummer is the Anti-Christ of the Environmental Movement

Chapter Twenty-One

What in the World is McDonaldization?

Chapter Twenty-Two

America the Wasteland - What a Mess We Have Made

Chapter Twenty-Three

Sixty Thousand Orangutans

Chapter Twenty-Four

Nero's Fiddling While Rome Burns

Chapter Twenty-Five 

Juliana, et. al. v. United States

Chapter Twenty-Six

Going Carbon Neutral

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Changing the Rules of Capitalism

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Avoiding Climate Chaos

Chapter Twenty-Nine      

Greenprint - A Path Forward

Epilogue

The Vanishing Window and Fearing the Future

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: America • climate change • Environment
• ISBN-10: 1-7352964-4-9 / 1735296449
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7352964-4-9 / 9781735296449