Facts, Not Fear

Teaching Children about the Environment
(Canadian Edition)

Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw

Adapted for Canadian readers by Liv Fredricksen and Laura Jones

Foreword by Patrick Moore

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• About the authors
• Foreword by Patrick Moore

1. A letter to parents
2. Trendy schools
3. Last chance to save the planet
4. At odds with science
5. What are the costs?
6. World population--will billions starve?
7. Natural resources--on the way out?
8. Canadian forests--a wasteland?
9. The rain forest--one hundred acres a minute?
10. North American wildlife--on the edge?
11. Where have all the species gone?
12. The air we breathe?
13. A hotter planet?
14. Sorting out ozone
15. Acid Rain
16. Not a drop to drink?
17. Don't eat that apple!
18. A garbage crisis?
19. The recycling myth
20. What we can do?

• Appendix A Textbooks reviewed
• Appendix B Environmental books for children
• Appendix C Books for a well-stocked environmental library
• Appendix D Academic and Scientific Advisory Panel

Copyright ©1999 by the Alabama Family Alliance.

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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Sanera, Michael.
Facts, not fear

Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-88975-194-3

1. Environmental education. 2. Environmental sciences--Study and teaching.
I. Shaw, Jane S., 1944-. II. Fredricksen, Liv. III. Jones, Laura 1970- IV. Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) V. Title.

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