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From world renowned scientist, media personality, and environmental champion David Suzuki, this volume on positive environmental action provides readers with a lively discussion of the problems facing the modern world in a wide variety of areas including food security, economics, and environmental degradation, and explores new courses of action available to citizens and governments to mitigate the worst of symptoms of impending human caused disasters. The work showcases science-based solutions and provides specific examples of how governments are failing to meet their responsibilities and how we, as citizens, can choose a new course forward. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. In doing so, Suzuki shows that understanding the causes—and recognizing that everything in nature, including us, is interconnected—is crucial to restoring hope for a better future. The solutions are there, he argues; we just need the will to act together to bring about change.Everything Under the Sun delves into such provocative topics as the difference between human hunters and other predators, the lessons we must learn from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the subsequent meltdown of the nuclear reactors, and our dependence on the sun for all of our food and energy—indeed for our very lives. Suzuki also considers the many positive steps people are making today.Underpinning it all is the recognition that we are blessed to live on a planet that gives us everything we require to live, under a sun that gives us the energy we need to produce food and transport and modern conveniences. But we must protect what we have if we want to survive and prosper.
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