Hospitable Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hospitable Planet write by Stephen A. Jurovics. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Hospitable Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. United Methodist Women’s Reading Group Selection “What can I do about the environment? What has God said about the environment?” Most books about climate change only address one of these questions. Those from a religious perspective do not address what individuals can do to help society transition from fossil fuels, other than changing personal behavior. Readers know instinctively that will not suffice, and so are left feeling the situation is hopeless. In contrast, books that primarily address environmental issues fail to reach people motivated more by faith than science, leaving out many who could constitute the tipping point for full American engagement on the issue. Borrowing an approach from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership, which brought together both secular and religious arguments for ending segregation, this book addresses physical evidence of climate change while demonstrating through biblical teachings the religious imperative for preserving our inherited world. The compelling biblical case for creation care is grounded in environmental teachings Jesus knew, primarily in the Hebrew Scriptures. Topics addressed include air pollution, treatment of the land, preserving biological diversity, and treatment of animals, and each is connected to contemporary issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, care of the needy, the extinction of species, and factory farming.
Origin and Evolution of Earth
Origin and Evolution of Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origin and Evolution of Earth write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2008-08-04. Origin and Evolution of Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor. Deciphering the planet's history and processes could improve the ability to predict catastrophes like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, to manage Earth's resources, and to anticipate changes in climate and geologic processes. At the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Geological Survey, the National Research Council assembled a committee to propose and explore grand questions in geological and planetary science. This book captures, in a series of questions, the essential scientific challenges that constitute the frontier of Earth science at the start of the 21st century.
How to Build a Habitable Planet
How to Build a Habitable Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Build a Habitable Planet write by Charles H. Langmuir. This book was released on 2012-07-22. How to Build a Habitable Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rev. and expanded ed. of: How to build a habitable planet / Wallace S. Broecker. 1985.
Rare Earth
Rare Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rare Earth write by Peter D. Ward. This book was released on 2007-05-08. Rare Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe. Everyone who has been thrilled by the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the indications of life on Mars and the Jovian moon Europa will be fascinated by Rare Earth, and its implications for those who look to the heavens for companionship.
Earth, Our Living Planet
Earth, Our Living Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth, Our Living Planet write by Philippe Bertrand. This book was released on 2021-04-21. Earth, Our Living Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and Venus? The habitability of a planet is its capacity to allow the emergence of organisms. What astronomical and geological conditions concurred to make Earth habitable 4 billion years ago, and how has it remained habitable since? What have been the respective roles of non-biological and biological characteristics in maintaining the habitability of Earth? This unique book answers the above questions by considering the roles of organisms and ecosystems in the Earth System, which is made of the non-living and living components of the planet. Organisms have progressively occupied all the habitats of the planet, diversifying into countless life forms and developing enormous biomasses over the past 3.6 billion years. In this way, organisms and ecosystems "took over" the Earth System, and thus became major agents in its regulation and global evolution. There was co-evolution of the different components of the Earth System, leading to a number of feedback mechanisms that regulated long-term Earth conditions. For millennia, and especially since the Industrial Revolution nearly 300 years ago, humans have gradually transformed the Earth System. Technological developments combined with the large increase in human population have led, in recent decades, to major changes in the Earth's climate, soils, biodiversity and quality of air and water. After some successes in the 20th century at preventing internationally environmental disasters, human societies are now facing major challenges arising from climate change. Some of these challenges are short-term and others concern the thousand-year evolution of the Earth's climate. Humans should become the stewards of Earth.
