With over half a million copies of Earth in the Balance sold, this timely re-issue benefits from a major new Foreword. It is a powerful and passionate analysis of the most crucial and far reaching issues confronting humanity. 'When I wrote this book, terms like global warming and greenhouse gases seemed exotic, unfamiliar, and unimportant to the lives of ordinary Americans. That has changed dramatically - except for those who still want to pretend that no one cares. There is a powerful awareness of the danger, and a widespread determination that we must not and will not leave our grandchildren a ravaged planet ringed with a thickening layer of carbon dioxide concentrations. So we have to strengthen, not weaken, environmental protection across the board, from global warming to stabilizing world population. This was my conclusion when this book was first published: We can believe in that future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the Environment Decade is within our reach; the earth is in the balance.' AL GORE, December 1999 From the Foreword
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About the Author:
Al Gore is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, the author of New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth, a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and former Vice President of the US.
Review:
'The frankest and most important publication by a current politician I have read in a long time' William Rees-Mogg in The Independent 'The whole darn' thing... even more daring than Star Wars' The Independent on Sunday 'By far the best book of its kind by a serving politician that I have read' Jonathon Porritt in the Times Literary Supplement 'Dazzlingly meticulous... a model for the politically relevant, comprehensive discussion of environmental policy' New Scientist 'He argues forcefully, unanswerably, with intense humanity' The Observer 'An honest and thoughtful explanation of why preservation of the environment is central to the future of humanity' The Independent 'Close to the action, readable, passionate' Financial Times 'Well-argued ideas for saving the world' The Mail on Sunday 'The book is an indication that Mr Gore is a thinker as well as a doer' The Times 'An intelligent, articulate and highly readable study of the parlous state of mother earth' The Scotsman 'A work of intelligence and passionate authenticity' Time 'An astonishing book' The Irish Times 'a solid intellectual achievement, a work many scholars and environmental specialists might be proud to write.' New Scientist 'A passionate, intelligent and articulate discussion of the environmental crisis we face. First published in 1992 ... [it] resonates even more strongly today.' New Scientist 'This book is a brilliant analysis of the larger context of our situation, and is as relevant now as when it was first published.' Network Review, The Scientific and Medical Network
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1853837431
- ISBN 13 9781853837432
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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