Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America and the Environment by Corey J A Bradshaw and Paul R Ehrlich

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America and the Environment by Corey J A Bradshaw and Paul R Ehrlich

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780226316987
Author: Corey J A Bradshaw
Additional Authors: Paul R Ehrlich
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Place: Chicago IL
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240 pages
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside page. Wear to book corners and edges. Book is clean and binding is still very good.

Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common.

Geographically both countries are expansive, the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity.

At the same time, both nations are on a crash course toward environmental destruction. Highly developed super consumers with enormous energy footprints and high rates of greenhouse gas emissions, they are two of the biggest drivers of climate change per capita.

As renowned ecologists, Corey J A Bradshaw and Paul R Ehrlich make clear in Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, both of these countries must confront the urgent question of how to stem this devastation and turn back from the brink.

In this book, Bradshaw and Ehrlich provide a spirited exploration of the ways in which the United States and Australia can learn from their shared problems and combine their most successful solutions in order to find and develop new resources, lower energy consumption and waste, and grapple with the dynamic effects of climate change.

Peppering the book with humour, irreverence, and extensive scientific knowledge, the authors examine how residents of both countries have irrevocably altered their natural environments, detailing the most pressing ecological issues of our time, including the continuing resource depletion caused by overpopulation.

They then turn their discussion to the politics behind the failures of environmental policies in both nations and offer a blueprint for what must be dramatically changed to prevent the worsening of the environmental crisis.

Although focused on two nations, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie clearly has global implications, the problems facing the United States and Australia are not theirs alone, and the solutions to come will benefit by being crafted in coalition.

This book provides a vital opportunity to learn from both countries' leading environmental thinkers and to heed their call for a way forward together. (publisher blurb)

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