Earth in the Balance audio book cover
( Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit ISBN 0-452-26935-0, paperback ISBN 1-85383-743-1) is a 1992 book written by Al Gore, published in June 1992, shortly before he was elected Vice President in the 1992 presidential election. Known by the short title Earth in the Balance, the book explains the world's ecological predicament and describes a range of policies to deal with the most pressing problems. It includes a proposed " Global Marshall Plan" to address current ecological issues.
Written while his son was recovering from a serious accident,
Earth in the Balance became the first book written by a sitting U.S. Senator to make the since New York Times bestseller list John F. Kennedy's . Profiles in Courage [1 ]
Earth in the Balance was released in paperback and audio-book format on audio cassette tape.
It received the
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights 1993 Book award given annually to a novelist who "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes - his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity." [2 ]
The book was followed by
, a book that was the companion for a movie narrated by Al Gore, shown at the 2006 An Inconvenient Truth Sundance Film Festival and released on 24 May, 2006. [3 ]
episode " Futurama Crimes of the Hot," Al Gore himself references the book and its "far more popular" fictional future sequel, . Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth
Editions [ edit ]
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, 1992, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 0-395-57821-3. Gore, Al,
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, 2000-04-22, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 0-618-05664-5. Gore, Al,
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, New edition, 2000-07-26, Earthscan Publications Ltd, paperback, 440 pages, ISBN 1-85383-743-1. Gore, Al,
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, New foreword, 2006, Rodale, Inc., paperback, 408 pages, ISBN 978-1-59486-637-1.
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