Creating a Sustainable Future: Living in Harmony with the Earth

Exploding human populations and loss of spaces diversity, global warming, soon-to-be exhausted fossil fuels, destruction of tropical rain forests, increase in the gap between the rich and the poor, waste and loss of valuable natural resources, food shortages and degradation/loss of valuable agricultural lands, the inhumane use of "factory farming", the failure of western medicine to treat patients in a wholistic manner via mind/body/spirit strategies, the failure of fast-food diets to meet our health and nutritional needs, and the disconnect between ourselves and our environment are MAJOR problems being faced by humankind on Planet Earth today. We, the authors, felt that there was an urgent need to write Creating a Sustainable Future: Living in Harmony with the Earth so as to offer sustainable solutions to the myriad of environmental problems facing our society in both the developing and developed parts of the world. This coupling of the problems to solutions to them is precisely what most current books fail to address. This is what makes this book so unique and useful. Students, teachers, health care providers, environmentalists, agriculturists, legal experts, theologians, social workers, architects and city planners, engineers, farmers, alternative energy experts, biotechnologists, government and non-government experts, ecologists, natural resources experts, writers and historians, and people affiliated with the arts will all find this book to be useful. Individually, we can put into practice many of the solutions that are delineated in this book, By doing so, it is our hope that this book will help pave the way to a much more sustainable future for all of us before it is too late. Book jacket.