Eyes wide open : going behind the environmental headlines / Paul Fleischman.

By:

Fleischman, Paul [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Somerville : Candlewick Press, 2014.Description: 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780763671020
0763671029
9780763675455
0763675458

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Juvenile works.

DDC classification:

363.7 F596e 2014 23

LOC classification:

TD170.15 .F54 2014

Online resources:

Contents:

Part 1. Noticing. Optical illusions -- The essentials -- My town/your town -- Part 2. Perception. Vested interests -- Common sense -- Out of sight -- In the now -- Backstory: The oil embargo -- Part 3. Defense mechanisms. Denial -- Projection -- Regression -- Part 4. Systems. Democracy -- Capitalism -- Backstory: Ozone -- Part 5. Attitudes. Science to the rescue -- Never retreat -- No limits -- Losing control -- Backstory: Kyoto -- Part 6. Eyes abroad and ahead. Conflict -- Chindia -- Fixes -- Coming soon -- How to weigh information -- Source notes -- Glossary.

Awards:

Junior Library Guild selection

Summary: We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking -- suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world. This book explains it. Using politics, psychology, and history for altitude, Eyes Wide Open shows how to see the principles driving events and attitudes, from vested interests to denial to big-country syndrome. Here's the briefing you need to comprehend the twenty-first century.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Premier University Central Library	363.7 F596e 2014	1	Available		27102

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179), filmography (page 180) and index.

We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking -- suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world. This book explains it. Using politics, psychology, and history for altitude, Eyes Wide Open shows how to see the principles driving events and attitudes, from vested interests to denial to big-country syndrome. Here's the briefing you need to comprehend the twenty-first century.