The next one hundred years : shaping the fate of our living earth /

Weiner, Jonathan

The next one hundred years : shaping the fate of our living earth / Jonathan Weiner - New York : Bantam Books, c1990 - 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm .

Includes index.

Chapter 1. Question -- Chapter 2. Minute particulars -- Chapter 3. Keeling's curve -- Chapter 4. Atropos -- Chapter 5. Slow eureka -- Chapter 6. First summer of the third millennium -- Chapter 7. Seven spheres -- Chapter 8. Ozone holes -- Chapter 9. Lovejoy's islands -- Chapter 10. Oracle of Gaia -- Chapter 11. The New question .

The next one hundred years lay out the problem[s] deftly and eloquently in an anecdotal, meet the scientist way. It well may be the best all-around introduction to the subject.

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ECOLOGY

QB 631 .W42 1990