Countdown (Audio book) - Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

Informationen zum Autor Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including The World Without Us , which is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China, and an international bestseller translated in 34 languages. His work has been selected for many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing . An award-winning journalist, his reports have appeared in Harper's , the New York Times Magazine , the Atlantic Monthly , Discover , Vanity Fair , Wilson Quarterly , Mother Jones , and Orion , and on NPR. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine , Weisman is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions. He lives in western Massachusetts. Klappentext OIn his bestselling "The World Without Us, " Weisman contemplated an Earth without humanity. In this follow-up, he considers the impact of the staggering number of people on this planet and how we can slow population growth and heal the damage already wrought.ON"Library Journal." A controversial tour de force. Weisman seeks to answer a fundamental question - how do we manage the global population without destroying the planet? Zusammenfassung A controversial tour de force. Weisman seeks to answer a fundamental question - how do we manage the global population without destroying the planet?

Product details

• Authors: Alan Weisman, Weisman Alan
• Assisted by: Adam Grupper (Reader / Narrator), Grupper Adam (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Hachette Audio
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9781478924548
• ISBN: 978-1-4789-2454-8
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 157 mm x 41 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social impact of environmental issues