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In this respect, Homo sapiens is indeed a powerful planetary force. We have effected more change on earth than any other single species. Yet this image grossly misrepresents the nature of our power and makes it ever more likely that more menacing problems will appear on the horizon. By dutifully accepting the burden of responsibility, we have also reinforced the traditional image of humankind as the most potent force on the planet. But in acknowledging our role as the engineers of the greatest change to the earth’s atmosphere that has occurred in the past half-million years, we obscure at least as much as we reveal. The widespread acknowledgment that global warming is anthropogenic in nature, although tardy, is a welcome development. The warming of the planet, scientists have demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt, is largely the product of human enterprise, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests. The problem is not that our best climatologists have miscalculated. For all the attention that climate change has gained as of late, we still fail to understand its fundamental nature. Whether we are at a cataclysmic point of no return, or simply worsening an already massive problem, one thing is clear: greater and swifter action is required. Beyond this dire marker, measured in parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, our best efforts of remediation would fail to reverse, or even much temper, a self-reinforcing and accelerated cooking of our planet. We appear to be hurtling toward a tipping point. The stakes are certainly the highest imaginable: civilization itself is threatened, and the menace is imminent. Notes 287 Selected Bibliography Index 323Ĭlimate change may well be the greatest challenge that humankind has ever faced. Environmental degradation-Social aspects. Includes bibliographical references and index. Indra’s net and the Midas touch : living sustainably in a connected world / Leslie Paul Thiele. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thiele, Leslie Paul. Printed and bound in the United States of America. For information about special quantity discounts, please e-mail This book was set in Stone Serif and Stone Sans by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
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