Learning to Think Environmentally: While There Is Still Time - Softcover

Lester W. Milbrath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791429547 ISBN 13: 9780791429549

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

The survival of planet Earth's nourishing life systems ultimately depends on how we humans think about them. Unfortunately, our culture's assumptions about the way the world works ignore recent scientific understanding of life systems. This book explains the interdependency and delicate balance of biological, geological, and chemical systems as environmental scientists now understand them. It communicates a new way of thinking.

Written in everyday language as a conversation between two neighbors, Learning to Think Environmentally is illustrated with cartoons by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles. It demonstrates that learning the basic principles of environmental thinking is essential to our social, physical, economic, and spiritual well-being. This new way of thinking is urgently needed in our public discourse if we are to take a sustainable pathway to the future.

About this title

About the Author

Lester W. Milbrath is the Director of the Research Program in Environment and Society and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of many books, including Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out and Environmentalists: Vanguard for a New Society, both published by SUNY Press.

Review

"Milbrath's book is deceptively modest. It confronts inescapable facts of limits and our place as animals within the global biosphere. For all who care about what we are leaving for our children and grandchildren, this is an important contribution." -- David T. Suzuki, from the Foreword

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0791429547
• ISBN 13: 9780791429549
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156