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Author: amparo enriquez (Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:12 am)
Title: Book Recommendation
I want to recommend Lester R. Brown’s book: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. Editorial Norton, 2006.
Brown’s main concerns are:
“We are consuming renewable resources faster than they can regenerate. Forests are shrinking, grasslands are deteriorating, water tables are falling, fisheries are collapsing, and soils are eroding. We are using up oil at a pace that leaves little time to plan beyond peak oil. And we are discharging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere faster than nature can absorb them, setting the stage for a rise in the earth’s temperature well above any since agriculture began.”
This is a great book very appropriate for our times it will help you understand our present world predicament and it is also a book you will enjoy.