Author : John Firor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133448
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis The Crowded Greenhouse by : John Firor
Download or read book The Crowded Greenhouse written by John Firor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change. John Firor and Judith Jacobsen summarize the current status of these two issues, show how they are related to one another, and prescribe steps that governments, economies, societies, and individuals can adopt to stabilize both population and climate. Firor and Jacobsen argue that two revolutions are necessary to achieve a stable population and freedom from human-induced climate change: a social revolution that improves equity, particularly the status of women, and a technical revolution that yields vastly greater efficiency in energy and materials use than we have today. They offer a vision that incorporates these changes, and they urge professionals and activists to work to achieve them, even in the face of great odds.