Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 1993-11-26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0521457599
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The human species faces a new threat to its health--perhaps to its survival. Our burgeoning numbers, the spread of technology, and our conspicuous consumption are overloading Earth's capacity to replenish and repair itself. Taking a unique perspective, Planetary Overload forcefully points out the consequences to human health of ongoing degradation of Earth's ecosystems. In a broad-based, accessible analysis, A.J. McMichael examines current ecological disruptions--land degradation, ozone depletion, temperature increases, and loss of genetic diversity through the extinction of species, among others--and compellingly demonstrates their potentially disastrous results, including food shortages, new and intensified disease patterns, rising seas, mass refugee problems, and cancers, blindness, and immune suppression from increased ultraviolet radiation. While other books on the subject analyze only the environmental impact of these problems, McMichael takes his analysis to an entirely new and Download Planetary Overload for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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