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Author Grinspoon, David Harry, author.

Title Earth in human hands : shaping our planet's future / David Grinspoon.

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  304.2 GRINSPOON    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  304.2 GRI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 522 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-502) and index.
Contents Listening to the planets -- Can a planet be alive? -- Monkey with the world -- Planetary changes of the fourth kind -- Terra sapiens -- Intelligent worlds in the universe -- Finding our voice -- Embracing the human planet.
Summary "A NASA astrobiologist outlines optimistic messages about humanity's future in the face of climate change, explaining how the human role in managing the planet's evolution is determining the course of life,"--NoveList.
Subject Human ecology.
Human beings -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Global environmental change.
Environmental protection.
Earth (Planet)
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry.
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change.
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.
SCIENCE / Space Science.
ISBN 9781455589128 hardcover
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9781478908906 audio download
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