Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment (Hardcover)

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet
2. The Insidious Explosion: Global Trends in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint
3. Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of the Human Footprint on Our Planet
4. Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust
5. Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share
6. Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep
7. Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed?
8. No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action
9. Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth
Appendix 1. Data Sources Used to Make Graphs
Appendix 2. Reading the Graphs in This Book
Appendix 3. Putting Global Environmental Impact into a Quantitative Framework That Links Impact and Behavior
Appendix 4. Some Charitable Organizations Involved with Global Environmental Issues
Notes
Index