Product Description: Our wants for food, housing, medicine, transportation, luxuries, and all the other benefits of industrialization have resulted in the exploitation of our natural surroundings. We know our actions affect the physical world we depend on, so why must we be faced with catastrophic problems--overpopulation, the loss of bio-diversity, global warming, and the like--before we act to protect the planet's ecosystem--and then often inadequately?With astute analysis Peter Seidel explores the complex convergence of psychological, social, economic, and political factors that keep us from acting in our own self-interest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Report assessing society's ability to sustain itself without hurting the next generation (view table of contents)

Articles from 'World Watch' magazine examine environmental threats such as the greenhouse effect and dwindling supplies of water and natural resources and offer a vision of an environmentally responsible future

Product Description: Book by Brown, Lester, Wolf, Edward