Publisher's Synopsis
"The future of humanity is in danger due to the continuous depletion of planetary resources and environmental degradation. Urgent actions by people everywhere are required to save the situation. This book discusses these issues in a comprehensive manner including climate change and its deleterious consequences, degradation and pollution of air, land, and seas, changing weather patterns, rising sea levels, forest fires, expanding deserts, and shortage of freshwater in many parts of the world"--.