Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet

By Chris Spence

Global warming is the greatest environmental threat facing humanity. From killer heat waves and increasingly violent weather to the spread of pests and vector-borne diseases, global warming has many effects on our lives. While some are positive, most are negative. People fear potentially catastrophic consequences but there is a disturbing lack of understanding about global warming and what can be done about it. Global Warming breaks through the jargon, offering readers both a clear description of the problem and a practical guide to solutions, from decreasing reliance on automobiles to increased recycling to political activism. It offers hope that each of us can be doing something to solve the problem and encourages us to act--not only for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403966982
• ISBN13: 9781403966988
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

interesting, engaging, makes you want to know more

In this book, Chris Spence was able to present global warming as a real and compelling issue and to entice the reader to investigate deeper into the complexities of this subject. This is more than any technical essay on global warming could have achieved in terms of drawing the attention to such an important subject, often disregarded because too "technical".

Easy Read

Good book that gets to the heart of the issues surrounding global warming, and does so without pummeling the reader with environmental jargon.

Important, Smart, and Readily Accessible

This book brings the issue of Global Warming to the masses. Chris Spence does an excellent job making this topic understandable and interesting while still impressing upon the reader the magnitude of this problem. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to decipher the simple truth about Global Warming and what we can do, on a personal level, to help alleviate this problem.