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    The Abundance Myth: Our Environment In Crisis
    Middle Class Lifestyle: Fatal Environmental Consequences
    Environmental Issues: Mankind's Relentless March to Oblivion
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    Environmental Chaos Series

    By Jon Van Loon

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    About this series

    Get Ready to be shocked!
    In this book I am envisioning that through some Einsteinian relativistic means I have reached a date sometime in the future and have discovered that I am the last individual surviving on earth. Thus it seems propitious that I should compile a short statement in the memory of those billions who died in calamitous fashion before me and seek the whys and wherefores for their demise. For my memorial discourse I have chosen the time interval 2010 to 2015, this being a particularly crucial period in which key issues challenging man’s future sustainability on this planet were at their tipping point. Mankind’s typical propensity to disregard substantive remediation of those issues judged not to be immediately cataclysmic is particularly well demonstrated during this interval.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Van Loon
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
    The Abundance Myth: Our Environment In Crisis
    Middle Class Lifestyle: Fatal Environmental Consequences
    Environmental Issues: Mankind's Relentless March to Oblivion

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      Environmental Issues: Mankind's Relentless March to Oblivion
      Environmental Issues: Mankind's Relentless March to Oblivion

      Environmental Issues: Mankind's Relentless March to Oblivion

      Jon Van Loon
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      Environmental issues are a pressing concern for governments globally. World overpopulation, causing subset problems such as, water scarcity, climate change, and resource depletion, is at the top of the environmental issues list. Environmental policies supporting global initiatives need to be enacted immediately, in order for our environment to continue sustaining future generations. As an environmental scientist with the University of Toronto for over 25 years, I traveled the world and witnessed firsthand many of the issues discussed in this book. The clock is relentlessly ticking toward environmental catastrophe and the time for action is upon us if we are to enact the changes necessary to alter the course of our trajectory.

      Environmental issues are a pressing concern for governments globally. World overpopulation, causing subset problems such as, water scarcity, climate change, and resource depletion, is at the top of the environmental issues list. Environmental policies supporting global initiatives need to be enacted immediately, in order for our environment to continue sustaining future generations. As an environmental scientist with the University of Toronto for over 25 years, I traveled the world and witnessed firsthand many of the issues discussed in this book. The clock is relentlessly ticking toward environmental catastrophe and the time for action is upon us if we are to enact the changes necessary to alter the course of our trajectory.

    • The Abundance Myth: Our Environment In Crisis
      The Abundance Myth: Our Environment In Crisis

      The Abundance Myth: Our Environment In Crisis

      Jon Van Loon
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      There is a dangerous and erroneous belief circulating that the current exponential output in environmental research will contain answers that will save our planet. Yet every minute we destroy 51 acres of rain-forest, we consume 35,000 barrels of oil and we release 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide into our environment: The above belief is dangerous because it suggests that the general public can continue sitting back waiting for the skilled researchers to solve our major life endangering problems. Considering Our major problems have only developed during the less than 200 years since the onset of the Industrial Revolution accompanied by an astounding population increase from 1 to 7 billion a drastic change in most aspects of society is required. The revelations contained here-in are a must read.

      There is a dangerous and erroneous belief circulating that the current exponential output in environmental research will contain answers that will save our planet. Yet every minute we destroy 51 acres of rain-forest, we consume 35,000 barrels of oil and we release 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide into our environment: The above belief is dangerous because it suggests that the general public can continue sitting back waiting for the skilled researchers to solve our major life endangering problems. Considering Our major problems have only developed during the less than 200 years since the onset of the Industrial Revolution accompanied by an astounding population increase from 1 to 7 billion a drastic change in most aspects of society is required. The revelations contained here-in are a must read.

    • Middle Class Lifestyle: Fatal Environmental Consequences
      Middle Class Lifestyle: Fatal Environmental Consequences

      Middle Class Lifestyle: Fatal Environmental Consequences

      Jon Van Loon
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      This book is conceived as to demonstrate just how deeply embedded the now rapidly growing problems destabilizing our environment are ingrained in the common functions that constitute daily life particularly related to the upper and middle class. These range from our personal life style ritual through the various societal, political, business and other infrastructure that ticks and tocks relentlessly in the course of a typical day worldwide. It is important to stress that this book will likely annoy a large variety of sections of our society and it was designed to do just that. My hope is that the annoyance will be the ‘bur under the saddle’ so to speak that will introduce into our minds the real gravity of our environmental problems. More importantly might this keep concern for the real fundamental problems of maintaining a mankind sustainable biosphere constantly in our thoughts?

      This book is conceived as to demonstrate just how deeply embedded the now rapidly growing problems destabilizing our environment are ingrained in the common functions that constitute daily life particularly related to the upper and middle class. These range from our personal life style ritual through the various societal, political, business and other infrastructure that ticks and tocks relentlessly in the course of a typical day worldwide. It is important to stress that this book will likely annoy a large variety of sections of our society and it was designed to do just that. My hope is that the annoyance will be the ‘bur under the saddle’ so to speak that will introduce into our minds the real gravity of our environmental problems. More importantly might this keep concern for the real fundamental problems of maintaining a mankind sustainable biosphere constantly in our thoughts?

    • Requiem for Mankind
      Requiem for Mankind

      Requiem for Mankind

      Jon Van Loon
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      Get Ready to be shocked! In this book I am envisioning that through some Einsteinian relativistic means I have reached a date sometime in the future and have discovered that I am the last individual surviving on earth. Thus it seems propitious that I should compile a short statement in the memory of those billions who died in calamitous fashion before me and seek the whys and wherefores for their demise. For my memorial discourse I have chosen the time interval 2010 to 2015, this being a particularly crucial period in which key issues challenging man’s future sustainability on this planet were at their tipping point. Mankind’s typical propensity to disregard substantive remediation of those issues judged not to be immediately cataclysmic is particularly well demonstrated during this interval.

      Get Ready to be shocked! In this book I am envisioning that through some Einsteinian relativistic means I have reached a date sometime in the future and have discovered that I am the last individual surviving on earth. Thus it seems propitious that I should compile a short statement in the memory of those billions who died in calamitous fashion before me and seek the whys and wherefores for their demise. For my memorial discourse I have chosen the time interval 2010 to 2015, this being a particularly crucial period in which key issues challenging man’s future sustainability on this planet were at their tipping point. Mankind’s typical propensity to disregard substantive remediation of those issues judged not to be immediately cataclysmic is particularly well demonstrated during this interval.

    Author

    Jon Van Loon

    My life has been complicated by 3 factors. A severe learning disability and a bipolar condition could have easily doomed me to a troubled, non productive existence. However a prodigious unrelenting manic drive was the burr under my saddle that propelled me to unexpected achievement in academia. Of interest here in this regard was that developments in my laboratory at the University of Toronto lead me to opportunities to work, teach and live for short periods in many locations on the 6 continents over a 25 year period. During these intervals, I chose to live in local category accommodation thus maximizing my exposure and participation in parochial experiences. In contrast to the calamitous relationships dogging present world interrelationships my experiences were entirely welcoming and solicitous.I was born in Hamilton Ontario Canada. My interests include jogging and other fitness programs having run in and completed 4 marathons together with numerous 5, 10 and 20 km events. My prowess in sport to say the least was very average. Non-the-less I participated in and then later coached ice hockey both in Canada and Australia. My reward for all this activity is that I have a healthy cardiovascular system and have endured 3 knee replacement operations. Most particularly I have a passion for work related to environmental concerns. In this regard I have 120 peer reviewed research papers in Environmental Chemistry, one of which nearly landing me in jail.

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