Alexander Gates
Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis
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Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis offers hope for beating climate change by highlighting moments in history in which humans have successfully reversed environmental damage. It explores past environmental crises and evaluates current approaches to find what more could be done.
Format: Hardback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 06 August 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
The popular media often portrays a bleak and hopeless future for our planet due to climate change, but Alexander Gates' book "Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis" offers a different perspective. Gates explores past environmental crises that humanity has successfully addressed, highlighting moments in history where environmental damage was reversed. He demonstrates that concerted efforts from motivated activists and scientists can lead to victories, such as the elimination of toxins and pesticides like lead and DDT, and the increase in Bald Eagle populations. Gates also evaluates our current approaches to climate change and highlights what more could be done, including solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and geothermal, algal fuels, and nuclear energy. He argues that by learning from our history, the planet may still have a bright and healthy future ahead.
Weight: 490g
Dimension: 236 x 160 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538179673
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