The Middle Path
Subtitle: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
Contributors: M. B. DeBevoise (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780226468532
Subjects: Global warming; Science; Environmental Studies; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; Human Geography; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Geography; Earth Sciences - Geography; Global environmental change; Human ecology; Sustainable development
Description: In The Middle Path, noted geographer Eric Lambin provides a concise, readable summary of the present state of the environment and considers what must be done if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided. Finding merit in the arguments of both optimists and pessimists, Lambin argues that it is not too late to exploit the inherent tendency toward equilibrium of large-scale systems such as the earths̕ environment. By relying upon a combination of remedies as global as international cap-and-trade emission treaties and as local as municipal programs promoting the use of bicycles rather than cars, it may yet be possible to rescue humanity from a potentially fatal crisis of its own making.

Based on rigorous scientific analysis, and strikingly free of ideological prejudice, The Middle Path presents a fresh view of our troubled future, brilliantly balancing tough-minded realism with humanitarian ideals of cooperation and ingenuity.