Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth
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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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2014. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9426-3 |
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.