The Crowded Greenhouse ? Population, Climate Change & Creating a Sustainable World: Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World

Firor, John

ISBN 10: 0300093209 / ISBN 13: 9780300093209

Published by Yale University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crowded Greenhouse ? Population, Climate Change & Creating a Sustainable World: Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300093209
• ISBN 13: 9780300093209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • science environmental

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Synopsis

A revolutionary vision of how we can create a sustainable planet

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.

About the Author

John Firor is a senior scientist and director emeritus at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Judith E. Jacobsen is a writer, lecturer, and consultant on world population issues.