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The Little Earth Book
The Earth is now desperately vulnerable--so are we. This gift-priced-and-sized book contains original, stimulating miniessays about what is going wrong with our planet and about the greatest challenge of our how to save the Earth for us all. It is pithy, yet intellectually credible well-referenced, wry, yet deadly serious. An all new U.S. edition--the U.K. edition has sold over 40,000 copies! Researched and written by an eminent British architect, James Bruges, The Little Earth Book is a clarion call to action, a mindboggling collection of mini-essays on today's most important environmental concerns, from global warming and poisoned food to economic growth, Third World debt, genes and "superbugs." Undogmatic but surefooted, the style is light, explaining complex issues with easy language, illustrations and cartoons. Ideas are developed chapter by chapter, yet each one stands alone. It is an easy browse--equally at home bedside, in the bathroom or in a briefcase. The Little Earth Book provides hope, with new ideas and examples of people swimming against the current, of bold ideas that work in practice. Did you
Packed with easy-to-digest information, James Bruges spells out, clearly, concisely and with alarming documentation just what we're up against and what must be done. Presented in the same trim size as 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know , this book continues Disinformation's line of valuepriced, impulse purchase books.
Packed with easy-to-digest information, James Bruges spells out, clearly, concisely and with alarming documentation just what we're up against and what must be done. Presented in the same trim size as 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know , this book continues Disinformation's line of valuepriced, impulse purchase books.
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192 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2004
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July 13, 2009
Sticks to facts, doesn't preach or condemn, but pretty powerful, by the sheer accumulation of warning signs.
One fact in particular tells us that we, or our children, are going to have to change our lifestyle: if the rest of the world consumed only half of what we do (raw materials, plastics, energy, etc), we would need 2 earths to sustain us; so we know that with development, the prices will go up so dramatically that the sheer cost of things will force us to conserve... Meanwhile, we and our children will have plenty of time to rue all we've wasted, and are wasting still.
One fact in particular tells us that we, or our children, are going to have to change our lifestyle: if the rest of the world consumed only half of what we do (raw materials, plastics, energy, etc), we would need 2 earths to sustain us; so we know that with development, the prices will go up so dramatically that the sheer cost of things will force us to conserve... Meanwhile, we and our children will have plenty of time to rue all we've wasted, and are wasting still.
September 8, 2011
I absolutely love this book and keep it handy for re-reading its words of wisdom from time to time. In a series of short essays of one or two (little) pages each, the book lays out what could form the basis of an entire curriculum of consciousness-raising with respect to humans' relationships with the planet and with each other.
March 30, 2008
Informative essays.
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