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Harvesting space for a greener Earth / Greg Matloff, C Bangs, Les Johnson.

What was our planet like in years past? How has our civilization affected Earth and its ecology? Harvesting Space for a Greener Planet, the Second Edition of Paradise Regained: The Regreening of the Earth, begins by discussing these questions, and then generates a scenario for the restoration of Ear...

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Main Authors: Matloff, Gregory L. (Author), Bangs, Constance (Author), Johnson, Les (Charles Les) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, 2014.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Environmental degradation.
Environmental responsibility.
Astronautics and civilization.
Space industrialization > Environmental aspects.
Ecology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Welcome to the Present
  • Space Utilization
  • A Moral Imperative
  • Fire
  • Formation of the Earth and the Solar System
  • Earth Before Man
  • Utopia or Nightmare?
  • The Environmental Dilemma
  • Progress or Collapse?
  • Exploding Population
  • Climate Change
  • Vanishing Life
  • Diminishing Energy
  • Humans Before the Industrial Age
  • A Desirable Ecological Goal?
  • Part III Paradise Regained.-Raw Materials from Space
  • Power from the Sun
  • Environmental Monitoring from Space
  • Protecting Earth
  • Mitigating Global Warming Using Planetary Engineering
  • Mitigating Global Warming Using Space-Based Approaches.-Setting the Solar System
  • Paradise Regained
  • An Optimistic Future.

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