Introduction

Introduction 

          In this book search project, I will mainly be focusing on global warming/climate change, human impact on natural landscape, and the depletion of resources worldwide. I chose these subtopics because they greatly interested me because they are a very hotly debated topic with lots of obtainable information, as well as they are very relatable to the "humanized environment". To prepare for this project, I searched for ten recently written books that described in great detail my topic and subtopics, two of which cover almost all of the subtopics and are a great research tool for my project. 

               My first choice book is The Bridge at the Edge of  the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by James Gustave Speth. The reason that I chose this book is because it accurately depicts, in detail, the threats to our environment caused by humanity. Speth describes how humanity is on a downward slope to our doom by saying if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with halted growth in the human population or world economy, the world in the later part of the century will be unfit to live in. 

               My second choice book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. The reason that I chose this book is because it talks about the five mass extinctions in the last half-billion years of Earth's history, and how the next mass extinction may be right around the corner. Scientists have been monitoring the looming sixth extinction, comparing it to the prior mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Kolbert writes about how humans have been altering the environment in a way no species has before, which only decreases the time until the imminent extinction of humankind's great legacy.