Paradise Regained: The Regreening Of Earth


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  • Toc: Cover......Page 1 Paradise Regained......Page 2 ISBN 0387799850......Page 4 Contents ......Page 5 Foreword......Page 7 Acknowledgments......Page 10 1 Space Utilization: A Moral Imperative......Page 24 Part I. Mythical Paradise......Page 33 Fire: Formation of Earth and the Solar System......Page 34 Earth Before Man: Utopia or Nightmare?......Page 43 Part II. Paradise Lost?......Page 50 The Environmental Dilemma: Progress or Collapse?......Page 51 Exploding Population......Page 61 Climate Change......Page 71 Vanishing Life......Page 80 Diminishing Energy......Page 88 Humans Before the Industrial Age: A Desirable Ecological Goal?......Page 100 Part III. Paradise Regained......Page 108 Raw Materials from Space......Page 109 Power from the Sun......Page 126 Environmental Monitoring from Space......Page 137 Protecting Earth......Page 150 Mitigating Global Warming......Page 161 Settling the Solar System......Page 173 Paradise Regained: An Optimistic Future......Page 184 Afterword......Page 188 Index......Page 191