The American authors of Earth and You, Charles Officer and Jake
Page, claim the book is optimistic. It’s hard to see why. They describe
well-known environmental problems and disasters, then extract comfort from some
successful solutions. But their cheerfulness about coping with the huge future
menaces appears little more than finger-crossing. Published by University Press
of New England, 拢18.95, ISBN 0914339877.
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