Earth's Biosphere in Peril
On-line book by
John Cairns, Jr.
First website posting: March
2011
(Chapters added as completed)
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Title Page, Forward, Preface &
Acknowledgements (added 3/31/11)
Table of Contents
(updated 5/27/11)
Chapter 1 - Earth's
Biosphere (updated 5/22/11)
Chapter 2 - Threats to the Biosphere:
Eight Interactive Global Crises (added
3/31/11)
Chapter 3 - Global Discourse on Interactive
Crises (added
3/31/11)
Chapter 4 - The Triumph of Ideology in
an Increasingly Fact Free World (added
5/22/11)
Chapter 5 - Biospheric
Intergenerational Ethics (added
5/22/11)
Chapter 6 - A Worst Case Scenario for
Continuing Business as Usual (added
5/27/11)
Chapter 7 - A Covenant for the
Biosphere (added
5/27/11)
Chapter 8 - Existential Risks
Involving Earth's Biosphere (added
8/10/11)
Chapter 9 - Petition of the
Candlemakers Against the Sun (added
8/22/11)
Chapter 10 - Redistribution of
Earth's Resources by Global Policy or Laws of Nature? (added
8/22/11)
Chapter 11 - The Biosphere:
Humanity's Common Wealth (added
9/26/11)
Chapter 12 - A Social Contract for
Preserving and Nurturing the Present Biosphere (added
10/5/11)
Chapter 13 - Biospheric Refugees (added
10/10/11)
Chapter 14 - Chaos Theory and
Biospheric "Surprises" (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 15 - Earth's Biosphere: The
Global Commons (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 16 - Eliminating the
Biospheric Refugee Crisis (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 17 - Partially Global to
Tribal: Will Humankind Be Forced to Make the Transition? (added
11/10/11)
Chapter 18 - Biospheric Resources and
Growth (added
12/18/11)
Chapter 19 - Economic Growth and the
Biosphere (added
12/18/11)
Chapter 20 - Primary Sources of Human
Wealth: The Biosphere and Knowledge (added
12/18/11)
Chapter 21 - Carrying Capacity for
Humans in a Financially Globalized World (added
1/19/12)
Chapter 22 - Facing Reality on
Sustainability (added
1/19/12)
Chapter 23 - The Ultimate Tipping
Point: Destruction of the Biosphere (added
2/12/12)
Chapter 24 - The Ultimate Feedback
Loop and the Inevitable Tipping Point (added
2/18/12)
