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Year: 2,009
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Edition: 1st Edition.
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Pages: 180
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Pages In File: 193
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Language: English
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Topic: 38
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Issue: до 2010-01
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Toc: Cover......Page 1Paradise Regained......Page 2ISBN 0387799850......Page 4Contents ......Page 5Foreword......Page 7Acknowledgments......Page 101 Space Utilization: A Moral Imperative......Page 24Part I. Mythical Paradise......Page 33Fire: Formation of Earth and the Solar System......Page 34Earth Before Man: Utopia or Nightmare?......Page 43Part II. Paradise Lost?......Page 50The Environmental Dilemma: Progress or Collapse?......Page 51Exploding Population......Page 61Climate Change......Page 71Vanishing Life......Page 80Diminishing Energy......Page 88Humans Before the Industrial Age: A Desirable Ecological Goal?......Page 100Part III. Paradise Regained......Page 108Raw Materials from Space......Page 109Power from the Sun......Page 126Environmental Monitoring from Space......Page 137Protecting Earth......Page 150Mitigating Global Warming......Page 161Settling the Solar System......Page 173Paradise Regained: An Optimistic Future......Page 184Afterword......Page 188Index......Page 191