What is included with this book?
Foreword | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Synopsis and Chapter Summaries | p. xiii |
Author Biographies | p. xix |
Introduction: Welcome to the Present | p. xxiii |
Space Utilization: A Moral Imperative | p. 1 |
Mythical Paradise | p. 9 |
Fire: Formation of Earth and the Solar System | p. 11 |
Earth Before Man: Utopia or Nightmare? | p. 21 |
Paradise Lost? | p. 27 |
The Environmental Dilemma: Progress or Collapse? | p. 29 |
Exploding Population | p. 39 |
Climate Change | p. 49 |
Vanishing Life | p. 59 |
Diminishing Energy | p. 67 |
Humans Before the Industrial Age: A Desirable Ecological Goal? | p. 79 |
Paradise Regained | p. 87 |
Raw Materials from Space | p. 89 |
Power from the Sun | p. 107 |
Environmental Monitoring from Space | p. 119 |
Protecting Earth | p. 133 |
Mitigating Global Warming | p. 145 |
Settling the Solar System | p. 157 |
Paradise Regained: An Optimistic Future | p. 169 |
Afterword: Why Space Advocates and Environmentalists Should Work Together | p. 175 |
Index | p. 177 |
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