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Four people are born every second of every day. Conservative estimates suggest that there will be 10 billion people on Earth by 2050. That is billions more than the natural resources of our planet can sustain without big changes in how we use and manage them.
So what happens when vast population growth endangers the world’s food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet’s biodiversity? What happens if some or all of these become critical at once? Just what is our future?
In Tipping Point for Planet Earth, world-renowned scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly explain the growing threats to humanity as the planet edges toward resource wars for remaining space, food, oil, and water. And as they show, these wars are not the nightmares of a dystopian future, but are already happening today. Finally, they ask: at what point will inaction lead to the break-up of the intricate workings of the global society?
The planet is in danger now, but the solutions, as Barnosky and Hadly show, are still available. We still have the chance to avoid the tipping point and to make the future better. But this window of opportunity will shut within ten to twenty years. Tipping Point for Planet Earth is the wake-up call we need.
- Sales Rank: #164745 in Books
- Published on: 2016-04-26
- Released on: 2016-04-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x .97" w x 6.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
- You won't be able to stop reading this book.
Review
"This title is highly recommended for readers interested in environmental issues, particularly climate change, environmental justice, and why there is a need to enact change in social policy." --Library Journal
"Fascinating, frightening, and disconcertingly credible, Tipping Point for Planet Earth is far more than a cohesive assembly of global science and worldly circumstances; it is a perfectly pitched clarion call to action―now. Can there be any topic bigger or more important than our planet’s failing life support systems? Intelligence may be measured by the facility to draw lines of connection―and this book does exactly that, brilliantly―but it demands courage to see the picture that takes shape inside all of those connected and interconnected dots, and then to understand what needs to be done about it. The news is hard, but it doesn't have to be hopeless. Barnosky and Hadly consider what are in effect the elements of a planetary exposé, with Homo sapiens as both perpetrators and victims, (along with the rest of life on earth), and go on to illuminate the paths that can lead toward a lasting rehabilitation. Their vision is fearless and clear-eyed, and the book is stunning." ―Lynn Stegner, author of West of 98 and Because a Fire Was in My Head
"Frequently unsettling, often surprising, yet not without a modicum of hope, the authors’ cogent and articulate analysis of our past and present presents an urgent view of the steps required to ensure a livable future." ―Booklist
"Many books bombard their readers with facts and figures about climate change, but few convey what these number mean in human terms. Barnosky and Hadly have travelled the world as scientists, but in this book they speak to us as people. A brave and beautiful account of what is really at stake in the current global crisis." ―Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University), co-author of Merchants of Doubt
“Better than excellent . . . a real page turner that entertains as it explains why we're headed for a global tipping point that is way beyond just climate change. Tipping Point for Planet Earth is in a whole new class.” ―Paul R. Ehrlich (Stanford University), author of The Annihilation of Nature
"Just because we have collectively lost interest in the doom clock doesn't mean it has stopped ticking . . . you cannot fault the authors' determination to try to warn us." ―Newsweek
"Powerful, compelling . . .addresses the urgent need for action and the concrete solutions that can forge a better future.” ―Liz Cunningham, author of Ocean Country and Talking Politics
"Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly eloquently lay out the ecological perils we face, deftly showing how they might segue into food and water shortages, disease, resource wars and mass migrations … Now we know the challenges for the 21st century; we just need to act." ―New Scientist
About the Author
PROFESSORS ANTHONY D. BARNOSKY AND ELIZABETH A. HADLY have been married and working together for nearly 25 years to uncover the scientific underpinnings that will help ensure a viable future for humanity.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A must read for anyone who cares at all about the immediate future of mankind.
By James Leach
A compelling portrayal of the converging future catastrophic effects of climate change from global warming, rising population pressure, unsustainable resource consumption and agriculture practices, the open global economy, and lingering religious, ethnic, and political intolerance. It clearly points out the critical immediate need for more internal bipartisan and international cooperation just as we witness ever growing political polarization here in the USA and international turmoil following the UK vote to depart the EU. Although we have a long way to go to avert the worst to come, we can if we somehow inform the masses of the essential need to get educated and force the needed changes through their votes. The Sustainable Way: Straight talk about global warming - what causes it, who denies it, and the common sense transition to renewable energy.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Is the earth beyond saving?
By Cynthia Hall
When I first learned about "Tipping Point For Planet Earth", I was curious. Would the book be full of gloom and doom or, would it offer us hope? I have lived "green" my whole life. I'm passionate about doing so. But I will admit that I've wondered if my efforts are too little too late.
I expected a "dry" book full of statistics on things like the rise of global sea levels and the melting polar ice cap. What I found is a book rich with real-life stories ... interesting experiences which explain the problems we now face and often include hopeful solutions. For example, there's an excellent chapter on population. It begins with an encounter with bandits in India and ends with a simple, but effective solution to managing population growth. A tranquil, delightful experience with gorillas starts a chapter entitled "War". An important idea from this chapter is that our major issues are all related and can't be resolved by addressing one over the other.
This book is for everyone. Those who believe that we are doomed, because world leaders aren't "on board", will be interested in the number of corporate and political leaders who are committing to change for the better. Individuals, trying to live green, will learn how their efforts have a true, positive impact. People who love facts will find them ... and folks who simply like a good story will be engrossed.
From this book, I took away an important idea ... we can change things ... we just need to make the choice to do so.
I received a copy of this book in order to write this review. I received no other compensation. All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone and reflect my honest opinion of the material reviewed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Sighting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
By Dennis Littrell
Their hooves can be heard and they can be seen riding abreast in the not so distant mist.
Although professors Barnosky and Hadly wax optimistically as they close this alarming book, I have my doubts. Add several other horsemen to pestilence, war, famine and death, including pollution, global warming, over population, habitat degradation and perhaps worst of all, human nature, and the future looks terrifying. Each one of these is a “threat multiplier” which can be understood as “multiple threats” coming “together to add up to more than the sum of their parts.” (p. 209)
The authors lay the horrors to come out in nearly excruciating detail, chapter by chapter—that is, if we do nothing. This is where human nature comes in. It is our nature to relieve ourselves in the river and the pond; it is our nature to throw the chicken bones over our shoulders; it is our nature to just move on when the stench becomes too much. And when there were only a million or so humans on the planet this was okay. We could besmirch, spoil, pollute to our heart’s content without any significant long term consequence. We would just move on and of course the damage done would not be permanent since left to her own devices Mother Nature would heal herself. Not so anymore since there is really no place for us to move to and the kind of damage we are doing today with noxious and poisonous chemicals, metals, nuclear waste, etc. would take nature on her own many thousands of years to amend.
Barnosky and Hadly are not any sort of stay at home scientists. As a married couple they have been out in the jungles, the tundra, the deserts of the earth and in the muck and stench of poverty-stricken places both rural and urban all over the globe for twenty-five years. Hadly is an environmental biologist at Stanford University and Barnosky is a paleobiologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Their passion to find the truth about what is happening to the planet, and the horror of what they see coming is unmistakably and vividly reported. Each chapter is about one of the threats to the planet presented first as a personal experience during the many years they have been in the field and then as a detailed report on the facts as they know them from extensive research and collaboration.
Yes, this book should be required reading for high school students and by the members of the Congress of the United States. And yes it won’t be--well, some of the high school students will read it… And indeed it may be too late. What the authors see as a tipping point “is a landscape and seascape that has been so changed by humanity that our life-support systems are teetering precariously on the brink of collapse.” (p. 13) A tipping point can be understood as occurring just before a phase transition as in physics. Instead of water going from liquid to steam the planet can be seen as going from livable to hellish.
In a sense it could be said that we are the planet’s cancer, growing wildly amuck without regard for the life-sustaining ecosystems; in fact with wanton disrespect for the balance of flora and fauna which we devour, despoil and pollute like blind bacteria in a petri dish.
I want to point to one of the biggest threats not mentioned much anymore that the authors bring up, and that is too many people on the planet. Ever since Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s dire predictions in their 1968 book, “The Population Bomb” went bust (so to speak) it’s been politically and scientifically incorrect to cite over population as one of humanity’s problems. The conventional wisdom became that the planet’s human population would stabilize as more of the world’s women escaped poverty and became better educated and had easy access to contraception. The birthrates in Europe and Japan were cited as proof. However we already have too many people on the planet as evidenced by the billion or so who go to bed hungry every night. The authors estimate that we are currently using twice the earth’s carrying capacity in terms of resources. They project that as the under developed world gains middle class status they will want all the stuff people in the developed countries have. When that happens we will be exceeding the carrying capacity of the planet four or five times, and the tipping point will resolve into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
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