It's a Matter of Survival

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More than a book on the environment, this is a book about us as a species: our inability to grasp the significance of our actions and the tough decisions we have to make in order to save ourselves. The intellectual fog of sustainable development is incisively dispelled, and in its place Anita Gordon and David Suzuki suggest practical contributions that individuals as well as governments can make toward creating a "conserver society/'
"In their accessible style, the authors . . . show how such complicated phenomena as depletion of the ozone layer work and how quick and trendy 'technofix' answers aren't going to work While there is no way the Comfortable First World can continue its resource-consuming, atmosphere-polluting, population-crowding lifestyle, Suzuki and Gordon insist, there is a solution/' —Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"It's a Matter of Survival is the best piece of extended environmental journalism I've seen to date. Few specialists — the... Tovább

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More than a book on the environment, this is a book about us as a species: our inability to grasp the significance of our actions and the tough decisions we have to make in order to save ourselves. The intellectual fog of sustainable development is incisively dispelled, and in its place Anita Gordon and David Suzuki suggest practical contributions that individuals as well as governments can make toward creating a "conserver society/'
"In their accessible style, the authors . . . show how such complicated phenomena as depletion of the ozone layer work and how quick and trendy 'technofix' answers aren't going to work While there is no way the Comfortable First World can continue its resource-consuming, atmosphere-polluting, population-crowding lifestyle, Suzuki and Gordon insist, there is a solution/' —Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"It's a Matter of Survival is the best piece of extended environmental journalism I've seen to date. Few specialists — the 'experts/ myself included—would have tried for this much-needed panoramic view. It is an excellent book." —E. O. Wilson
"It's a Matter of Survival is quite simply a call to arms in the eco-wars. Their premise: We may have as few as ten years left to ensure the planet's ecological survival." —Gary Dunford, Toronto Sun
Anita Gordon is the originator, executive producer, and cowriter with David Suzuki of the acclaimed radio series "It's a Matter of Survival" and the producer of the popular science program "Quirks & Quarks." David Suzuki is Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia and the host of "The Nature of Things," a television show on science. He is the author of many books, including Inventingthe Future, and the coauthor of Genethics (Harvard). Vissza