LEADER 03764oam 2200721K 450 001 9910798175603321 005 20190503073429.0 010 $a0-262-33369-4 010 $a0-262-33368-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000603574 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001624403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16362119 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001624403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14845407 035 $a(PQKB)11608109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4424501 035 $a(OCoLC)941999334 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51467 035 $a(OCoLC)941999334$z(OCoLC)960086668$z(OCoLC)965340330$z(OCoLC)965823410$z(OCoLC)994342152 035 $a(OCoLC-P)941999334 035 $a(MaCbMITP)10555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4424501 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11206784 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL900998 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000603574 100 $a20160301d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA world to live in $ean ecologist's vision for a plundered planet /$fGeorge M. Woodwell 210 4$dİ20 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-03407-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aA century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future. The earth is a living system, Woodwell explains, and its stability is threatened by human disruption. Industry dumps its waste globally and makes a profit from it, invading the global commons; corporate interests overpower weak or nonexistent governmental protection to plunder the planet. The fossil fuels industry offers the most dramatic example of environmental destruction, disseminating the heat-trapping gases that are now warming the earth and changing the climate forever. The assumption that we can continue to use fossil fuels and "adapt" to climate disruption, Woodwell argues, is a ticket to catastrophe. But Woodwell points the way toward a solution. We must respect the full range of life on earth -- not species alone, but their natural communities of plant and animal life that have built, and still maintain, the biosphere. We must recognize that the earth's living systems are our heritage and that the preservation of the integrity of a finite biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right. -- Provided by publisher. 606 $aRestoration ecology 606 $aGlobal environmental change 606 $aGlobal warming 606 $aEnvironmental degradation 606 $aPollution 606 $aAir$xPollution 606 $aRadioactive pollution of the atmosphere 610 $aENVIRONMENT/General 615 0$aRestoration ecology. 615 0$aGlobal environmental change. 615 0$aGlobal warming. 615 0$aEnvironmental degradation. 615 0$aPollution. 615 0$aAir$xPollution. 615 0$aRadioactive pollution of the atmosphere. 676 $a577.27 700 $aWoodwell$b G. M$01576860 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798175603321 996 $aA world to live in$93854984 997 $aUNINA