About This Book
Aims of the book; Action: Solutions; Letter-writing; Campaigning; Definitions; Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Part One: Human Needs
1. Food - the Right to Eat
The Problem:
Peoples of the past: in Tune with Nature; the First Environmentalists; Colonialism: Cash Crops and Commodities; No Food for the Landless; Farming for the Rich: International Trade; Aid and Inefficiency; Environmental Destruction: Mechanized Agriculture; Wood for Fuel; Overfishing; Escaping the Consequences; the 'green revolution': Miracle Seeds?; New Problems; Pests and Pesticides; Irrigation; who Gained?; Food Aid: 'Grain Junkies'; Political Bias.
Action:
Hunger: Children; Women; Land Reform; Soil Restoration; Rural Development; Social Change; the NGOs; Self-reliance; Northern Production and Consumption; Fishing; Food Aid.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: buy Direct; Boycott Products; Go Vegetarian; Buy Organic; Grow your Own; your Lifestyle; Community and Political Action: Videos; World Food Day; Oxfam - Hungry for Change; Tell them what you Think; Organizations.
2. Wealth - Greed versus Need
The Problem:
Unequal Partners; Multinationals; The World Bank: Giant Dams; Displacing People; Southern Debt: what Went Wrong?; the Power of Oil; Money Down the Drain; Enter the IMF; the Debt Crisis; And the Good News?
Action:
The Wealth Gap: Human Development; Grass Roots; New Priorities; Self-reliance; Regional Co-operation; Controlling the Corporations; Appropriate Development; Urban Renewal of Rural Investment; Exploited Labour; Rewriting Debts; Reforming World Trade; what we Owe the South.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Fair Trading; Boycott the Offenders; Ethical Investment; Community and Political Action: Intermediate Technology; Oxfam 2000; In Whose Interest?; Tell them what you Think; Organizations.
3. Population and Health 60
The Problem:
Population - Still Soaring: Population Mathematics; Upsetting the Balance; Disease in the South: Water and Sanitation; Health Care; the Corporations; Poisons on the Land; Legal Standards; Misuse and Accidents; Different Safety Standards; do Pesticides Work?; Nitrates; Chemical Poisons in Industry: Worldwide Problem; Dioxins; Landfill and Contamination; Accidents will Happen; Weak Laws; the Poison Trade; Contaminated Air;
Radiation: the Anti-nuclear Case; Nuclear Tests; Nuclear Accidents.
Action:
Population and Health: Appropriate Family Planning; Better Opportunities for Women; Preventive Health Care; Water and Sanitation; Local Solutions; Primary Health Care; the Multinationals; Traditional Medicines; Fewer Poisons; Integrated Pest Management; Tighter Controls; Alternative Processes; Polluter Pays; Nuclear Waste.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Small Families; Wealth and Income Redistribution; Consumer Boycotts; Buying Safely; Converting Giving up your Car; Water Quality; Better Personal Health;
Community and political Action: Tell them what you Think; an End to Secrecy; Water Contamination; Waste Dumping; Nuclear Power; Organizations.
4. Women - Present Burdens and Future Role
The Problem:
Discrimination under the Law: the Weight of Tradition; Work in the Home; Women's Health; Marriage and Motherhood; Domestic Violence; Divorce; Women as Farmers: Colonial Disruption; Ignoring Women's Role; Women in the Modern Economy: Inequality in Employment; Obstacles for Working Mothers; New Technology; Unemployment and Poverty; Women in a Man's World: Education; Fertility; Politics; Rape.
Action:
Women's Burdens and Role: Collective Action; Legal Rights; Culture; Women and Work; Women and Development; Rural Women.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Buy from Women; Changes at Home; Equal Treatment for Boys and Girls; Women's Refuges; Workplace, Community and Political Action: Equal Pay; Co-ops; Child Care; Self-development; Organizations.
5. Human and Civil Rights
The Problem:
Children and Education: Early Drop-outs; Child Labour; Street Children; the Adoption Trade; Victims of War; Indigenous Peoples: European Conquest; Pushed into Poverty; Forest and Mountain People; Oppression Worldwide; Genocide; the Cost; The Violent State: Political Prisoners; Latin America; Asia; Middle East; Africa; South Africa; Rights in the North: Poverty and Injustice in the West; the High Cost of Northern Wealth; Support for Oppression; Eastern Europe; The Future.
Action:
Human Rights: Making Choices; Rights of the Child; Community Schooling; Protection; Indigenous Peoples; a Change in Material Values; Political Will; Public Opinion; Strengthening the UN; better Democracy.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Buy from Fair traders; Community and Political Action; Letter-Writing; in the Workplace; Education; Survival International; Amnesty International; Central America Week; Broader Issues; UK Democracy; Organizations.
Part Two: The Planet
6. Working the Land to Death
The Problem:
Disappearing Forests: an Essential Resource; Worldwide Destruction; Deforestation - the Causes: Blaming the Rural Poor; Rural Defenders; Commercial Exploitation; Dams and Mining; Migration Programmes; Deforestation - the Real Costs: who Benefits?; Environmental Damage; Less Rainfall more Drought; Firewood Crisis; Forest Peoples; Death of the Soil: Soil Loss Ancient and Modern; the Deserts Advance; Destructive Farming; Mismanaged Irrigation.
Action:
Deforestation and Soil Loss: Problems with 'Sustainability'; Damage Limitation; International Bans and Campaigns; Alternatives; Extractive Reserves; no More Big Developments; New Trees; Local Control; Local Solutions; Soil Management; Livestock; Irrigation.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices; Avoid Hardwoods; Tell them what you Think; Food Choices; Recycling Paper and Card; Plant Trees;
Community and Political Action: Join Campaigns; National Tree Week; Reforest the Earth; Make the Connections; Letter-writing; Organizations.
7. Water - the Most Precious Resource
The Problem:
Water Rich and Water Poor: Heavy Water Users; Exhausting Supplies; Access to Water; Increasing Demand; Flooding; Irrigation and Large Dams - Hidden Costs: Irrigation; how Dams Go Wrong;
Dirty Inland Waters: Disease and Waste; Waters of the North; Chemical and Nuclear Contamination; Filthy Seas: the Effects of Dumping; Nuclear Waste; no Escape Route; Damage to Fishing.
Action:
Water Use and Abuse: Conservation; Dual Solution; Political Action; Flood and Irrigation Controls; Recovery Time; Industry and Agriculture; Recycling; Meeting the Cost; Enforcement of Standards.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: use Water Sparingly; Buy Wisely; Fewer Chemicals and Batteries; Recycle Paper and Other Products; Plastics; Boat Users; Community and Political Action; Water Metering; Recycling Schemes; Limiting Landfill; Report Pollution Incidents; Organizations.
8. The Atmosphere -the Sky's the Limit
The Problem:
Global Warming: the Stratosphere; Rising Temperatures; Greenhouse Gases; too Hot to Handle; Rising Seas and Refugees; Disappearing Habitats; The Hole in the Ozone Layer: what Causes it?; Depletion Rate; the Effects; Airborne Acid: the Causes; Widely Travelled Pollution; how Serious?; 'Forest Death'; Waterways and Fish; Other Damage.
Action:
Atmosphere and Climate: Preventive Measures; Planting New Trees; Curbing CO,; Energy Efficiency; Recycling; Government Action; Restoring a Balance; Nuclear Power; Alternative Energy; Less Motor Car Use; CFCs; Acid Pollution; Cleaner Power Stations; Catalytic Converters.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Conserve Energy and Heat; Recycling Schemes; Organic Foods; Avoid CFCs; Less Driving more Cycling; Environmental Transport Association; Community and Political Action: for Youngsters; UK Government; Campaign against Nuclear Power; Environment-Friendly Transport; Organizations.
9. Habitats and Species - Nature under Siege
The Problem:
The Importance of Biological Diversity: Species Co-operation; Disrupting the System; Nature's Wealth; Medicinal Plants; Untapped Potential; Disappearing Worlds: the Rainforests; Wetlands and Coral Reefs; Islands; Grassland and Wilderness; Antarctica; Vanishing Species: Wildlife Trade; Plants; Invertebrates; Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles; Birds; Larger Mammals; Elephants; Rhinos; on the Brink; Migration Routes; the Big Cats; Primates; Modern Farming; Mammals at Sea.
Action:
Habitats and Species: Parks and Reserves; Wilderness Corridors; Success Stories; Zoos and Gardens; Farming for Conservation; Strategy for Survival; Species Census; the Rainforests; Wildlife Trade Convention; Alternatives to Trade; Wildlife Ranching; Whaling Ban; 'World Park' for Antarctica; a New Outlook.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Interrelated Action; Care for Wildlife; Consume Carefully; Criticize and Boycott; Teach Respect; Wildlife Gardens, Trees, Recycling; Community and Political Action: Protect Local Habitats; Conservation Volunteers; Lobby the Government; Support Campaigns; Organizations.
10. A World without War?
The Problem:
Weapons and Wars: the Nuclear Threat; who has the Bomb?; Chemical and other Weapons; Worldwide War; Today's Battlefields; Superpowers and Cold War: the Cold War; the Arms Race; Star Wars; the Future; The Real Cost of Military Spending: Opportunity Costs; Inflation and Jobs; the Myth of the Spin-off; Social Costs; Knock-on Effects; the Price of Power; Wasting Resources; Environmental Damage; the Military Obsession; The Arms Trade: the Background; Competitive Market; Prolonging War; Secret Deals.
Action:
War and the Arms Race: the Role of the UN; International Treaties; Strengthening the UN; Peace Dividend?; NATO and the Warsaw Pact; Nuclear Test Ban; Dissolve the Alliances; Chemical Weapons; Disarmament and Development; Controlling Sales; Arms Conversion; the Peace Movement.
Getting Involved:
Consumer and Lifestyle Choices: Make Do with Less; Avoid Competition; Oppose Violence; Workplace, Community and Political Action:-International Links; Industrial Conversion; Lobby for Peace; Peace Studies; Organizations.
Glossary
Notes
Recommended Reading
Index
