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Obstacles to Environmental Progress identifies and explores 18 practical obstacles that routinely hinder US progress on existing environmental problems.

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9781800082083

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'This deeply thoughtful, open-access volume is easy to read but profoundly disturbing and only slightly encouraging, a book to energize the environmental movement.' CHOICE Connect

"'""We have a serious problem,"" writes Peter Schulze at the beginning of his book, Obstacles to Environmental Progress. ""We are beyond the carrying capacity of the planet."" What this means is that the way we are going on now cannot continue: it is unsustainable. Humanity's actions are reducing the planet's potential to support life and, the longer we carry on as is, the worse it gets for posterity. Something needs to be done.' Conservation Biology 'Schulze's book is a valuable resource for all scientists, and it would be a mistake to limit its use to environmental scientists and policymakers.' Metascience 'This deeply thoughtful, open-access volume is easy to read but profoundly disturbing and only slightly encouraging, a book to energize the environmental movement.' CHOICE Connect"

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Peter Schulze is Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Austin College, Texas, where he directs the Center for Environmental Studies and Sneed Prairie Restoration. During his Center directorship, the school has been recognized as second nationally in renewable energy use per student, reduced its greenhouse gas emissions some sixty per cent and deemed a green college by Princeton Review. The prairie project received the 2020 Texas award for excellence in environmental education. Schulze was previously a fellow of the US National Academy of Engineering; he holds a PhD from Dartmouth College. Austin College, Harvard University and Texas Monthly magazine have recognized his teaching.

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