11.5 Cartogram of carbon emissions. In this map, countries are shown with their apparent size proportional to their total annual emissions in
11.6 The strange logic of carbon offsets.
12.1 Sequoia sempervirens, the genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae.Sequoia National Park, California. Trees are some of the largest and longest-lived organisms around which human beings live. Their influence on human culture has been enormous.
12.2 Global deforestation rates.
12.3 Forest cover in France from 1500 to 2000. The pattern of decline and regrowth follows a notably “U-shaped” curve, which has been a key argument in favor of the so-called forest transition theory.
13.1 The gray wolf.
13.2 World map of countries with known gray wolf populations in
13.3 Estimated range of gray wolves in the contiguous United States.
13.4 Wolf management zones in Minnesota.
13.5 An early twentieth-century government wolf trapper.
14.1 The nuclear fuel chain.
14.2 World uranium production,
14.3 Colonial division of labor in the Navajo uranium mines. Denny Viles (third from left), executive with the Vanadium Corporation of America, in shirt, tie, and soft-sided hat; the other three men in the picture are hard-hatted Navajo mineworkers.
14.4 The Ranger Uranium mine and mill, Northern Territory, Australia.
15.1 The sleek, powerful, bluefin tuna. The bluefin are the largest of the tuna (the largest one ever caught weighed 1496 pounds).
15.2 Dolphin mortality at the hands of US fishing vessels using purse-seine tuna technology in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1960–
15.3 The “Medina panel,” one of a few technological and operational changes made by purse-seine tuna fishers in attempts to reduce dolphin mortality.
15.4 A label from a can of Alaska salmon bearing the Marine Stewardship Council stamp of approval. (MSC label blown up to show detail).
15.5 Does a tuna have rights? Mutilated tuna rest on pallets at a seafood wholesaler in Tokyo. The image accompanied a “treehugger.com” article about overfished tuna stocks. No mention was made of the tunas’ rights or their dignity being violated, either before or after catch.
16.1 Lead arsenate – most popular pesticide prior to DDT.
16.2 Map showing quantity of turfgrass across the United States.
16.3 The lawn chemical commodity and knowledge chain.
17.1 The Poland Spring “Spring House” in 1910. Like other naturally occurring springs, these water sources had become elite destinations in the 1800s. Markets for their waters were associated with luxury, health, and opulence. They were not a typical household expense, however, for working people who were only then beginning to receive regular water delivery through modern plumbing.300
17.2 Women draw water from a communal well in Rajasthan, India. Though groundwater declines threaten these rural water supplies, villagers depend on freely available communal water sources for survival, and upon the significant women’s labor require to draw, carry, and dispense water every day.
17.3 US per capita consumption of bottled water from 1988 to 2007. The steady increase in US bottled water consumption shows no signs of abatement. Consumption has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
17.4 Cartogram of bottled water consumption worldwide.
17.5 Median amount spent each month by US survey respondents on bottled water, per household.
17.6 Percentage of US survey respondents who think bottled water is safer than tap water.
18.1 Transfer and spread of the potato after the Columbian Exchange.
19.1 In Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana.
19.2 Life-cycle flow chart for electronic products.
19.3 Global trade in e-waste,
19.4 Battery Imports to the United States from Canada and Mexico for 2011.
List of Tables
12.1 Comparison of the number of important insect species measured to be present in differing systems of coffee production in Costa Rica
12.2 Some key tropical exports and their leading export countries. Most major tropical commodities are grown in forest frontiers of countries experiencing tropical deforestation.
12.3 The predominant banana export companies operating globally, their share of the market in 2002, and their headquartered locations.
13.1 Countries worldwide with gray wolf populations of 3000 or greater.
14.1 Countries producing most uranium, 2019.
14.2 Comparison of predicted and actual radioactive contaminant migration at Maxey flat low-level radioactive waste facility, Kentucky (US),
15.1 Overfished marine species.
17.1 Freshwater usage around the world. The total average withdrawals of freshwater per person vary enormously around the world, as do the proportions of those dedicated to domestic use.
17.2 Domestic US water use. A family of four uses 400 gallons of water daily, 300 of which are used indoors
17.3 Selected leading per capita consumer nations of bottled water, 2007.
18.1 Energy inputs and costs of potato production per hectare in the United States.
List of Boxes
2.1 Environmental Solution? The One-Child Policy
3.1 Environmental Solution? Insurance Addresses Climate Change
4.1 Environmental Solution? The Montreal Protocol
5.1 Environmental Solution? Endangered Species Act
6.1 Environmental Solution?
