The Delicate Balance
Turpen, Vicki / Horst, Shannon
The Earth is dying-its life forms bound for extinction-unless the most fundamental of changes is made: Carbon-based fuels must be abandoned.Chaos results-migrating hordes of starving people, abandoned hospitals and prisons (patients and inmates still inside), and deserted cities where only cockroaches still live.But then Jesse Forester, the U.N. scientist responsible for the changes that survival demands, finds hints that the data at the core ...