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Our dying planet [electronic resource] : an ecologist's view of the crisis we face / Peter F. Sale

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Sale, Peter F.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Physical Description
x, 339 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Information: what we are doing to our world -- Overfishing -- Removing forests -- Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine -- The perilous future for coral reefs -- Understanding: why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem -- The problem of shifting baselines -- Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature -- Moving forward: why it matters and what we need to do -- What loss of ecological complexity means for the world -- Reducing our use of fossil fuels -- Slowing growth of the hum.
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ISBN
9780520267565 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520267567 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index.
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