About the Book
Nothing less than the fate of life on Earth lies in the balance, which makes for an engrossing plot, made more poignant by the scientific research and data that back it up. All packaged in Gonick's unmatchable humor that helps lightening the dark realization of the sad state of the earth today.
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 need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy.
The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers 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 warming—and puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.
About The Author:
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for over
thirty years--he wrote his first guide in 1971: Blood From a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform. He is an award winning cartoonist and is considered the father of cartoon nonfiction. He has been a calculus professor at Harvard, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.