America's Environmental Report Card

Are We Making the Grade?

Harvey Blatt (Institute of Earth Sciences)

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MIT Press
25 February 2011

Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: America's Environmental Report Card

An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States, with new and updated material.

Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet polls show that many have lost faith in both scientists' and politicians' ability to solve environmental problems. In America's Environmental Report Card, Harvey Blatt sorts through the deluge of conflicting information about the environment and offers an accessible overview of the environmental issues that are most important to Americans today.

Blatt has thoroughly updated this second edition, revising and adding new material. He looks at water supplies and new concerns about water purity; the dangers of floods (increased by widespread logging and abetted by glacial melting); infrastructure problems (in a new chapter devoted entirely to this subject); the leaching of garbage buried in landfills; soil, contaminated crops, and organic food; fossil fuels; alternative energy sources (in another new chapter); controversies over nuclear energy; the increasing pace of climate change; and air pollution. Along the way, he outlines ways to deal with these problems-workable and reasonable solutions that map the course to a sustainable future. America can lead the way to a better environment, Blatt argues. We are the richest nation in the world, and we can afford it-in fact, we can't afford not to.

By: Harvey Blatt (Institute of Earth Sciences)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: second edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780262515917
ISBN 10: 0262515911
Series: America's Environmental Report Card
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 25 February 2011
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Harvey Blatt is the author of America's Environmental Report Card- Are We Making the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Reviews for America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?

This book serves as an indictment of inaction on the part of citizens and policymakers, a much-needed critique of the consumption-based economic drivers of environmental degradation, and a call to action for all Americans. Blatt's revision of the first edition is a welcome and valuable contribution to the field. --James W. Jordan, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch University New England