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Our activities have threatened the survival of many plants and animals, created scarcities in cultivatable soils and water needed for irrigation, used up a large share of fossil fuels, polluted air and water, and most likely created the conditions that will lead to major climate changes.

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This is a powerful and timely introduction to global ecological issues. It deserves to be read alongside other recent ecological classics such as J. R. McNeill's Something New Under the Sun or Jared Diamond's Collapse. - DAVID CHRISTIAN, author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History ""Conkin offers a concerned but calm, scientifically informed but reader-friendly, guide to both today's environmental quandaries and recent policy responses. His is a most timely book that deserves wide attention."" - J. R. McNEILL, author of Something New Under the Sun

The State of the Earth Environmental Challenges

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    A Paperback / softback by Paul K. Conkin

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      Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
      Publication Date: 12/06/2009
      ISBN13: 9780813192253, 978-0813192253
      ISBN10: 0813192250
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      Book Synopsis
      Our activities have threatened the survival of many plants and animals, created scarcities in cultivatable soils and water needed for irrigation, used up a large share of fossil fuels, polluted air and water, and most likely created the conditions that will lead to major climate changes.

      Trade Review
      This is a powerful and timely introduction to global ecological issues. It deserves to be read alongside other recent ecological classics such as J. R. McNeill's Something New Under the Sun or Jared Diamond's Collapse. - DAVID CHRISTIAN, author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History ""Conkin offers a concerned but calm, scientifically informed but reader-friendly, guide to both today's environmental quandaries and recent policy responses. His is a most timely book that deserves wide attention."" - J. R. McNEILL, author of Something New Under the Sun

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