Cartoon Guide to the Environment

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Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland Then you needThe Cartoon Guide to the Environmentto put you on the road to environmental literacy.

The Cartoon Guide to the Environmentcovers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warmingand puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.

Author Bio

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.