Earth and You: Tales of the Environment.

Charles Officer and Jake Page. Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2000. [phone]. 224 pp. $25.00 Clothbound.

Earth and You: Tales of the Environment examines what the world might look like fifty years from now if we fail to address our environmental problems today. The authors describe how a number of key environmental problems have been recognized and handled, demonstrating how environmental challenges have been successfully met by determined groups and individuals on local, regional, national, and international levels. They posit that two major issues remain: population growth and exhaustion of the earth's resources. They encourage aggressive, collective, imaginative approaches to these problems--approaches that will expand the advances already made in birth control, national and international initiatives, moral and religious leadership, alternative energy sources, and research and development.

Charles Officer is Research Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Jake Page is founder and past director of Smithsonian Books and Editorial Director of Natural History. Both collaborated on The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy and Tales of the Earth.