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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Living in an Environmental Age
• Part I State of the Planet
• Section 1: Species Unbound: Humanity’s Environmental Impact
• Introduction
• 1. Enter the Anthropocene
• 2. State of the Species
• 3. Humanity’s Potential
• Section 1 Exercise: The Time Machine
• Section 2: Four Planetary Challenges: Climate, Extinction, Water, and Food
• Introduction
• 4. Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math
• 5. End of the Wild
• 6. Where Has All the Water Gone?
• 7. The Global Food Crisis
• Section 2 Exercise: Fries with That? Tracing Personal Consumption
• Section 3: Causes of Environmental Harm
• Introduction
• 8. Too Many Americans?
• 9. A Finite Earth?
• 10. Consequences of Consumerism
• 11. Use Energy, Get Rich, and Save the Planet
• Section 3 Exercise: Where Do Babies Come From? The Causes of Population Growth
• Part 2 States, Markets, and Society: Geopolitical Responses to Unsustainability
• Section IV: International State System
• Introduction
• 12. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
• 13. Brief History of International Environmental Cooperation
• 14. What’s Wrong with Climate Politics
• 15. State Sovereignty Endangers the Planet
• Section 4 Exercise: Talking with the United Nations
• Section 5: Economy
• Introduction
• 16. The Promise of Corporate Environmentalism
• 17. Environmental Economics 101 Overcoming Market Failures
• 18. Capitalism vs. Climate
• Section 5 Exercise: What’s for Dinner?
• Section 6: Civil Society
• Introduction
• 19. The Power of Environmental Activism
• 20. Forcing Cultural Change
• 21. The Wrong Kind of Green
• Section 6 Exercise: Unpacking the NGO World and Taking Action
• Section 7: Race, Class, and Geopolitical Difference
• Introduction
• 22. The Delusion of Sustainable Growth
• 23. Who Is an Economy For? Rethinking GDP
• 24. One Atmosphere, Two Worlds
• 25. Environmental Colonialism The Perverse Politics of Climate Change
• 26. Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement
• Section 7 Exercise: A Toxic Thank-You
• Part III From Person to Planet: Into a Livable Future
• Section 8: Thinking Strategically
• Introduction
• 27. Leverage Points Toward a Sustainable World
• 28. Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?
• 29. The Poverty of Lifestyle Change
• 30. Why Bother?
• Section 8 Exercise: Two Minutes to Sustainability: Moving Governments, the Economy, and the Public
• Section 9: Political Imagination
• Introduction
• 31. Island Civilization 1,000 Years into the Future
• 32. A Is for Acid Rain, B Is for Bee
• 33. The Future Is Local
• 34. Technological Salvation
• 35. Geoengineering Reformatting the Planet for Climate Protection?
• 36. Humility in a Climate Age
• 37. How to Be Hopeful
• Section 9 Exercise: Calling All Earthlings: Self and Planetary Stewardship
• Credits
• About the Editors
• About the Authors