What's Really Happening to Our Planet?: The Facts Simply Explained

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Penguin, Aug 2, 2016 - Science - 224 pages

An easy-to-understand overview of the state of our planet and its future, using eye-opening and accessible charts, graphs, and infographics.

By 2050, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion. What's Really Happening to Our Planet? uses a graphic approach to chart the dramatic explosion of the human population and consumption and its impact on the planet.

Based on unmatched scientific data, What's Really Happening to Our Planet? brings together major areas of public concern, such as deforestation, climate change, water shortages, and inequality. Easy-to-reference charts and infographics illustrate key findings, while clear, jargon-free text explains the science behind the figures. In addition to charting global trends and showing how they are connected, this book articulates how we can live more sustainably in the future.

What's Really Happening to Our Planet? is a new and heart-stopping analysis of the latest chapter in human history and offers a fresh perspective on our future.

 

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0809 Foreword
1013 Introduction
Drivers of change 1
2 Consequences of change
3 Bending the curves
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About the author (2016)

Dr Tony Juniper is an independent environmentalist and writer. He is a fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and the President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts.

HRH The Prince of Wales has been an environmental leader for over forty years, working with businesses, charities, governments and others to help promote sustainable ways of living and working. He made his first speech on the environment in December 1968 and has long warned of the irreversible effects of climate change. In October 2007 he set up the Prince's Rainforests Project to slow tropical deforestation and combat climate change, and in 2010 his International Sustainability Unit was established to facilitate consensus on key environmental challenges, including how best to protect food security and sustain vital ecosystems. The Prince of Wales has also sought to address climate change challenges through his patronage of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and its Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhat's Really Happening to Our Planet?: The Facts Simply Explained
AuthorTony Juniper
ContributorHRH The Prince of Wales
PublisherPenguin, 2016
ISBN1465460039, 9781465460035
Length224 pages
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Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Nature / Natural Resources
Science / Global Warming & Climate Change
  
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