End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth? (Paperback)

Anthony Barnosky (Author)

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End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?

End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?

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End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?

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overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity s future rather than its past?

World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast population growth endangers the world s food supplies? Or our water? Our oil, space or environment? What happens if these all become critical at once? End Game explores the origins of disease in densely populated areas of West Africa, witnesses raging fires in Colorado and explains how drought-induced food shortages are already causing conflicts in the Sudan, Gaza Strip and Iraq. Finally, it asks: what combination of problems will hasten the sixth mass extinction? We still have the chance to avoid this tipping point and secure o

  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 9780007548170
  • Pages: 272
  • Weight: 0.26
Professors Anthony D. Barnosky and Elizabeth A. Hadly have been married and working together for nearly 25 years to uncover the scientific underpinnings that will help ensure a viable future for humanity. Anthony Barnosky is the Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California. A renowned paleobiologist, he has spent 30 years conducting research related to past planetary changes, and what they mean for forecasting the changes to come on Planet Earth in the next few decades.

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