Earth in human hands
Subtitle: shaping our planet's future
By: David Grinspoon
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781455589128
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Nature; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change; Effect of human beings on; Global environmental change; SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental); SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry; Human beings; Human ecology; History; SCIENCE / Space Science; Environmental protection
Description: "A NASA astrobiologist outlines optimistic messages about humanity's future in the face of climate change, explaining how the human role in managing the planet's evolution is determining the course of life,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-502) and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening to the planets; title: Can a planet be alive?; title: Monkey with the world; title: Planetary changes of the fourth kind; title: Terra sapiens; title: Intelligent worlds in the universe; title: Finding our voice; title: Embracing the human planet.