America's Environmental Report Card Second Edition

<b>An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States with new and updated material.</b><p>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 <i>America's Environmental Report Card</i> 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. </p><p>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.</p>