The climate crisis has been portrayed as deadly to humans, and it could be. However, serious environmental and resulting public health crises have run rampant for a century or more. This book looks at how several of these crises developed and were miraculously resolved and then compares how the climate crisis is being addressed.
The climate crisis has been portrayed as deadly to humans, and it could be. However, serious environmental and resulting public health crises have run rampant for a century or more. This book looks at how several of these crises developed and were miraculously resolved and then compares how the climate crisis is being addressed.
Alexander Gates is a distinguished service professor and former vice chancellor at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. He has been at Rutgers University for 37 years and served as chair of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences for 20 of those years. Gates is a field geologist who has conducted research on structural geology and tectonics from Maine to Alabama and in Colorado on a variety of topics. He is the author of 9 books, including the forthcoming Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis, and 81 professional papers and has edited 11 professional volumes. Gates has appeared on four television documentaries by PBS and the Discovery Channel among others and is commonly interviewed on television, radio, and newspaper features. He has developed several geology displays for large museums that are visited by hundreds of thousands of people. Gates also developed the Highlands Environmental Research Institute and served as director for eight years.
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Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Reality of Climate Change Chapter 2: Rachel Carson, DDT and Other Banned Pesticides Chapter 3: Get the Lead Out Chapter 4: Fixing a Hole in the Ozone Chapter 5: The Air that We Breathe Chapter 6: Supertanker Super-accidents Chapter 7: Burning Rivers and Urban Surface Water Pollution Chapter 8: Pollution Time Bombs Chapter 9: Current Climate Change Efforts Chapter 10: What Else Can Be Done? Chapter 11: It Isn't Just Climate Change Chapter 12: If We Ignore It, Will It Go Away? Bibliography Notes Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Reality of Climate Change Chapter 2: Rachel Carson, DDT and Other Banned Pesticides Chapter 3: Get the Lead Out Chapter 4: Fixing a Hole in the Ozone Chapter 5: The Air that We Breathe Chapter 6: Supertanker Super-accidents Chapter 7: Burning Rivers and Urban Surface Water Pollution Chapter 8: Pollution Time Bombs Chapter 9: Current Climate Change Efforts Chapter 10: What Else Can Be Done? Chapter 11: It Isn't Just Climate Change Chapter 12: If We Ignore It, Will It Go Away? Bibliography Notes Index About the Author
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