Paul Fleischman offers teens an Environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them.
Extensive back matter, including a glossary, bibliography, and index, as well as numerous references to websites, provides further resources..
Because money is as important as molecules in the environment, science is joined with politics, history, and psychology to provide the briefing needed to comprehend the 21st century.
Not with isolated facts, but the principles driving attitudes and events, from vested interests to denial to big-country syndrome.
This book explains it.
It\'s a changed world.
Suddenly everything needs rethinking -- suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices.
The downsides weren\'t visible for centuries, but now they are.
The result: a population and lifestyle never before seen.
Add abundant fossil fuels.
Take 250 years of human ingenuity.
We\'re living in an Ah-Ha moment.
Paul Fleischman offers teens an Environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them
