Synopsis
Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet pollsshow that many have lost faith in both scientists' and politicians' ability to solveenvironmental problems. In America's Environmental Report Card, Harvey Blatt sortsthrough the deluge of conflicting information about the environment and offers anaccessible overview of the environmental issues that are most important to Americanstoday. Blatt has thoroughly updated this second edition, revising and adding newmaterial. He looks at water supplies and new concerns about water purity; thedangers of floods (increased by widespread logging and abetted by glacial melting);infrastructure problems (in a new chapter devoted entirely to this subject); theleaching of garbage buried in landfills; soil, contaminated crops, and organic food;fossil fuels; alternative energy sources (in another new chapter); controversiesover nuclear energy; the increasing pace of climate change; and air pollution. Alongthe way, he outlines ways to deal with these problems--workable and reasonablesolutions that map the course to a sustainable future. America can lead the way to abetter environment, Blatt argues. We are the richest nation in the world, and we canafford it--in fact, we can't afford not to.
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