Guide to Global Environmental Issues

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Summary: Biased toward the negative side
Review: I had hoped to consider this as a supplementary text for a Freshman class (college) in Environment and People. Unfortunately, Dunn focuses too much on the "standard" negative issues without considering the political, social, and economic aspects--or that there are significant alternate views. She does allow that some issues are in doubt, but the overall flavor is on the negative side. If you want a text that will give you a quick overview of many more issues, I suggest "The Reporter's Environmental Handbook" by West, Sandman and Greenberg [Rutgers University Press](1995). It covers issues more objectively and on a local basis. We have to educate the students, not indoctrinate them.