Sale, Peter F.

Our dying planet an ecologist's view of the crisis we face / [electronic resource] : Peter F. Sale. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. - x, 339 p. : ill., maps. - The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment . - Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Information : what we are doing to our world: Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs -- Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem: The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature -- Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do: What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the hum.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Environmental responsibility.
Ecology.


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