Good news for a change
Subtitle: hope for a troubled planet
By: David Suzuki and Holly Dressel
Contributors: Dressel, Holly Jewell
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2002
Place of publication: St Leonards, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781865085791
Subjects: Environmental protection; Human ecology; Pollution; Environmentalism; Green movement; Environmental Pollution; Environnement; Protection; Écologie humaine; Environnementalisme; Écologisme
Description: We all know the bad news. The natural systems that support our lives are in trouble. They are threatened by the population explosion around the globe, the unfettered escalation of technology and the seemingly insatiable hunger for consumption that is fuelling the destruction of our natural environment. But authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel say there is hope yet for this troubled planet. The good news is that thousands of individuals, groups and businesses are already changing their ways. A growing number of organisations, corporations and individuals around the world are taking up a spontaneous global quest for sustainability. We are starting to base economic development strategies on our collective dependency on nature, while decreasing large-scale interference in our eco-systems. And we are finally learning to mimic the way natural systems function rather than attempting to conquer and control them. The authors have uncovered hundreds of working solutions that offer us all some much-needed hope. There really are things that can be done to help our environment before it's too late and, more than ever, we are learning to talk about solutions - and apply them. And what's more, many of the technologies we need to realise our goals - to save species, to conserve oil, to right social wongs - are already within our grasp. If we change our ways now, there hope yet that we might leave a living and viable planet for our children.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Making Money Like the Bee: Doing Business Without Doing Harm; title: Withdrawing Consent: Practising Democracy; title: Using Coyotes to Grow Grass: Restoring Biodiversity; title: A River Runs Through It: Save the Water; title: Eating Humble Pie: Growing Good Food; title: Listen for the Jaguar: Who Owns the Forests?; title: Song of the Albatross: Keeping Some Fish in the Sea; title: Wrestling with Pluto: Cutting Toxins, Cleansing Air; title: Breaking Out of the Box: New Ways to Think and to Learn; title: Epilogue; title: List of Organisations; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index