Principles of Environmental Science

Description

Author: Watt, Kenneth E. F.  (1929-)

Publisher: McGraw Hill

Pub Date: 1973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s stamp on second front end paper.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Some corner wear.

Notes: Textbook.  The fundamental ecological variables are matter, energy, space, time, and diversity.  At the time this was written (1973) the world population was 3.6 billion.  Today, almost half a century later, it stands at 7.7 billion.  Uses lots of math to come to conclusions.

Page 302: The Appropriate Goals for Mankind:  1. Provide strong, governmentally supported incentive for limiting family size….   2. Make wise, efficient use of all natural resources, including food, land, energy, wood, soil, minerals, and human time.   3. Develop an economic theory based on equilibrium, rather than economies…  4. Routinely monitor the physical and chemical state of the planet, and rigidly control any activities degrading it.    5. Legislate rigidly and effectively against any activity which can cause large-amplitude environmental instability.     6. Guarantee all citizens a basic set of environmental rights.

We were idealists all.