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Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

Contributor(s): Brand, Stewart (Author)

ISBN: 9780143118282

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Pub Date: September 28, 2010

Dewey: 304.2

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.81" H x 8.38" L x 5.52" W ( 0.65 lbs) 352 pages

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Description: With a combination of scientific rigor and passionate advocacy, Brand shows exactly where the sources of environmental dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society.

Review Quotes: Praise for Whole Earth Discipline

"One of the most important Green tracts since Silent Spring." --Fortune

"I believe the world must have, and soon, a series of debates on the many inconvenient challenges facing us, employing a small number of intelligent, provocative texts at the core, and this should be one of them." --Edward O. Wilson

"A lucid and provocative polemic, focusing on large scale fixes for a planet in jeopardy." --The Boston Globe

"Likely one of the most original and important books of the century." --Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest

"This book is truly important and a joy to read." --James Lovelock, author of The Revenge of Gaia

"A brilliant, elegant treatise by a veteran defender of the Earth's health." --Ian McEwan, author of Solar

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