Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by Gore, Albert
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- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0452269350
- ISBN 13
- 9780452269354
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About This Item
Boston: Plume Books, 1993. Very Good+. What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a bi g deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must ma ke the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civil ization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote: I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environm ent crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude tha t I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take mor e political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing toughe r, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments. And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
Synopsis
A passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore describes in this classic best-selling book how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us all. The book's groundbreaking analysis helped place the environment on the national agenda, summoning politicians, the media, and the public to attention and action. The message remains just as urgent today as it did eight years ago: while much has been accomplished, we must meet a global environmental challenge that reaches into every aspect of our society. In brave and unforgettable terms, Earth in the Balance probes the roots of the environmental crisis and offers a bold and forceful vision of a new, more sustainable path. Having provoked international discussion upon its original publication, it continues to confront us with profound challenges. Human civilization must change its course if we are to heal our ailing environment and preserve the earth's ecology for future generations. Vice President Gore describes in a new foreword to this classic what we have achieved and what remains to be done, and issues a clarion call to begin the millennium with an "Environment Decade." It is time to reflect deeply on the fate of our planet and commit ourselves to its future.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000006360
- Title
- Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
- Author
- Gore, Albert
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452269350
- ISBN 13
- 9780452269354
- Publisher
- Plume Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Environment / Environment;
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