The Climate Mandate.
San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1979Description: viii, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 0716710544
- 0716710552 (pbk.)
- 301.31
- QC981.8.C5 R6 1979
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 190-194.
Ch.1 Harvests and human survival -- Ch.2 Weather, climate, and human affairs -- Ch.3 Climates of the past -- Ch.4 The weather and climate machine -- Ch.5 Forecasts, outlooks, intelligent guesses, and conjectures -- Ch.6 Climate, crops, and consumers -- Ch.7 Cloud seeders and plant breeders - technological prospects and limits -- Ch.8 Defining the Problem - Malthusian pessimists, social idealists, and technological optimists.
Blends history, political science, meteorology, and climatology to examine the interaction of climatic variation, food production, and population growth and the way they will influence the nature and quality of human life in the future.