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    Betting the Earth: How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time
    Betting the Earth: How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time
    Betting the Earth: How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time
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    Betting the Earth: How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time

    By John Charles Kunich

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    "Betting the Earth explores the uneasy parallels between our contemporary environmental challenges and our national fascination with gambling. How much should we bet on preserving biodiversity? Should we bet more on responding to climate change? where should we place each bet: on federal or state laws, on acquiring public or private preserves, on preventing environmental harms or saving places of special environmental significance? Like it or not, we must make such choices every day, and Betting the Earth helps us to understand how we do so."

    Professor John Copeland Nagle, John N. Matthews Chair in Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781935166283
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