Author David Peaty sounds the alarm and offers radical advice about problems humanity has been tackling.

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Urgent tasks facing humankind—environment, energy, natural resources, food—are discussed in essays that also offer possible solutions, such as “permaculture” and “responsible tourism.”

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The author has been writing about global issues for many years, and has returned once again with these satisfying reads of 1,000 to 1,200 words.

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Comprehension questions are aimed at training high-level reading ability.

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Table of Contents

• Unit 1

Goodbye, Maldives

• ​Unit 2

Sustainable Communities

• ​Unit 3

Economic Inequality: the Growing Gap

• ​Unit 4

Dilemmas for a Responsible Tourist

• Unit 5

Learning from Nature

• ​Unit 6

We Can’t Live Without Water

• ​Unit 7

Protecting World Heritage

• ​Unit 8

The War on Sugar

• ​Unit 9

Energy for a Stable Climate

• ​Unit 10

Yasuni: A Dream of the Future?

• ​Unit 11

No More Bananas?

• ​Unit 12

Closing the Loop

• ​Unit 13

Blowing Whistles

• ​Unit 14

When It Is Right to Break the Law

• ​Unit 15

Believe It or Not: the Post-Truth Era