Ecosystem Crises Interactions. Merrill Singer

Driving climate change 8.3 How serious is climate change? 8.4 Drought and heatwaves 8.5 Melting land ice and tundra 8.6 Coastal flooding 8.7 The polar vortex 8.8 Hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, and tropical storms 8.9 Infectious diseases 8.10 Food loss to heat and insect pests References 9 Business as deadly usual: resisting environmental science 9.1 A consistent pattern of climate change denial 9.2 A time of questioning environmental science 9.3 Skirting accountability: polluters, innocence, and the victim slot 9.4 Fighting for the “right” to pollute 9.5 Deadly business: Big Energy and the denial of climate change 9.6 The politics of climate change denial 9.7 The institutions of the climate change denial machine 9.8 Taking climate change deniers to court 9.9 Fundamentalist denial References

      9  Part 3: Human health risks with changing environment 10 Crossing boundaries and thresholds 10.1 Are there biophysical boundaries for humanity? 10.2 Key biogeochemical and biophysical Earth system processes 10.3 Exploring planetary boundaries 10.4 Environmental tipping points References 11 Time for change? Toward sustainability, toward life 11.1 Why go to school? 11.2 Social movements 11.3 Stepping toward change 11.4 Toward changing the system: addressing ultimate causes 11.5 The solidarity economy 11.6 Stateless democracy 11.7 Ecosocialism References

      10  Index

      11  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Diverse benefits from nature. Source: Modified from World Wildlife ...

      2 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Percentage of U.S. estuaries with reports of low dissolved oxygen o...

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Fig. 1.1 Zoonotic disease triad.Fig. 1.2 Model of direct and indirect human effects on earth systems.Fig. 1.3 Smokestack pollution from a power plant.Fig. 1.4 Toxic waste barrel.

      2 Chapter 2Fig. 2.1 Ivy growing on a tree.Fig. 2.2 Charles Darwin.Fig. 2.3 Tide pool.Fig. 2.4 Human alteration of key components of Earth ecosystems.Fig. 2.5 Feedbacks between human activities and Earth properties leading to ...

      3 Chapter 3Fig. 3.1 Early stone tools.Fig. 3.2 Chichen Itza, a pre‐Columbian city built by the Mayan people.

      4 Chapter 4Fig. 4.1 Dodo displayed at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.Fig. 4.2 Time series for an oxygen isotope from the North Greenland Ice Core...Fig. 4.3 Bison cave painting, Altamira Cave, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, ...

      5 Chapter 5Fig. 5.1 Bleached coral.Fig. 5.2 The Great Barrier Reef.Fig. 5.3 Blue Earth.Fig. 5.4 Tuna sushi.Fig. 5.5 Beached ocean plastic.Fig. 5.6 Seahorse and cotton swab floating in Indonesian waters.Fig. 5.7 Harbor seal examining golf balls off the coast of California.

      6 Chapter 6Fig. 6.1 Hurricane Katrina flooding.Fig. 6.2 Miami‐Dade County, Florida.Fig. 6.3 Hospital patient.Fig. 6.4 Adverse climate change–nuclear nexus.Fig. 6.5 Runit Dome, Enewetak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, aeria...

      7 Chapter 7Fig. 7.1 Fracking drilling site.Fig. 7.2 Ground beetle.Fig. 7.3 Forest edge.

      8 Chapter 8Fig. 8.1 Global energy‐related CO₂ emissions.Fig. 8.2 Drought.Fig. 8.3 Melting glacier.Fig. 8.4 Flooding.Fig. 8.5 Hurricane.Fig. 8.6 The rising number of undernourished people in the world.Fig. 8.7 Grasshopper.Fig. 8.8 Coffee beans.

      9 Chapter 9Fig. 9.1 March for Science.Fig. 9.2 Oil rig.

      10 Chapter 10Fig. 10.1 Damselfly.Fig. 10.2 Forest fire.

      11 Chapter 11Fig. 11.1 Climate action marcher with Greta Thunberg sign.Spiske/UnSplas...Fig. 11.2 Bill McKibben.

      Guide

      1  Cover Page

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Dedication