num_pages: 416
description: A new edition of the vice president's groundbreaking environmental treatise argues that the engine of human progress now threatens to destroy the earth unless humans can create a more "sustainable" solution from within the framework of society.
language: English
title: Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
titlecomplete: Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
genres: Climate Change, Environment, Politics, Ecology, Science, Nature, Social Science, Nonfiction, History, Sustainability
ratings_count: 1447
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt