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A Contract with the Earth: Ten Commitments You Can Make to Protect the Environment Now Paperback – September 30, 2008

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A bold rallying cry for conservative environmental leadership from Newt Gingrich, New York Times bestselling author of Trump and the American Future and March to the Majority.

Appealing to America's core conservative readership and defying conventional thinking, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple posit that the values of conservative America are aligned with the principles of conservation and "entrepreneurial environmentalism." Saving the earth is not—and cannot be—a partisan issue. The authors outline a ten-point Contract with the Earth that promotes ingenuity over rhetoric, maintaining that the expansion of "green business," new technologies, and environmental economic incentives will be the defining opportunities for the leaders of the next generation.

An inspiring call to action, A Contract with the Earth offers a vision of the future that is both hopeful and achievable.

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“Gingrich's love for wildlife, like that of Theodore Roosevelt and the former conservative senator from New York James L. Buckley (brother of William F.), is personal and deeply rooted…. Strong in outlining the tremendous proliferation of government/business environmental partnerships and the expansion of strategic, collaborative philanthropy on behalf of conservation.”—G. Tracy Mehan III, The Weekly Standard

“A Contract with the Earth is about a new kind of environmentalism, a broad, inclusive approach to thinking about and solving environmental problems. It invokes an entrepreneurial zeal, public-private partnerships, executive leadership, and collaboration between industrial and environmental stakeholders.”—Byron Anderson, Electronic Green Journal

“An inspiration to big business leaders or neophytes to the topic—and to those with a bleeding heart.”—Science & Spirit

“Will surprise those who aren't aware of Gingrich's passion for nature. It's a must-read for anyone concerned about Earth and America's role in preserving it.”—The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)

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NEWT GINGRICH is best known as the chief architect of the Contract with America. A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, he has published eighteen books, including the bestsellers Real Change and Rediscovering God in America, and most recently, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. Newt lives in Virginia with his wife, Callista. The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren. Visit www.newt.org.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume; Reprint edition (September 30, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0452289920
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0452289925
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.65 x 7.75 inches

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Terry L. Maple is Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He currently resides in Fernandina Beach, FL where he maintains an office devoted to his scholarly and consulting pursuits. He is affiliated with the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens where he directs the zoo's "Wildlife Wellness" program and works under the title Professor-in-Residence. Professor Maple earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Davis and previously taught at Emory University and Georgia Tech. He and his students and collaborators have published more than 250 scholarly papers, book chapters, and books. He supervised 31 doctoral students during his career. An elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Psychological Science, he was elected President of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 1999. On leave from Georgia Tech, Terry Maple also served as President/CEO of Zoo Atlanta and the Palm Beach Zoo. His reform leadership at Zoo Atlanta has been widely praised. Under his direction, the zoo was twice named as the "Best Managed Non-profit Organization" in the City of Atlanta. In 2016 he was honored with the Distinguished Psychologist in Management Award from the Society of Psychologists in Management (SPIM). He regularly consults with government agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout the world including the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of the Interior. A charismatic speaker, he also maintains an active schedule of public lectures.
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NEWT GINGRICH is the former House Speaker and 2012 Presidential Candidate. Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor and To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine are three of his 14 New York Times bestsellers. He is a regular guest on national political shows.
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Mary A.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2008

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I just read and reread this book. I'm so tired of the gloom and doom meisters, I'm really happy to have found something that is POSITIVE, and explains exactly how to achieve Sustainability. There is much to do in this realm, but they have many examples of what is being done, and other examples of what each of us can do if we want to get involved.
The only thing I would have done better would be to have the examples better documented, so the direct sources of the information could be accessed more easily.

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Charles R. Cruickshank

Prereq. for managing our environment

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Regardless of our political idologies, this book is a great starting point in changing the way we think of, and act upon the world that we live in. In truth we must stop the bickering, and get on with the needed innovation for protecting and improving our environment.

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Ted Johnson

Positive, Optimistic, No Gloom and Doom!

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Great read with a positive, logical approach and proposed solutions to environmental issues. Perhaps slanted somewhat toward the conservative political view; But not to the point of making the issue partisan.

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Thomas Paine

This book is a sad joke

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2019

I came across this book in my collection from when I still thought Newt Gingrich deserved a benefit of the doubt. Given what has transpired since 2008 when it was written, one cannot help but conclude that Gingrich was more interested in book sales rather than promoting responsible ways to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals. And, since that time, Gingrich has said nothing about climate change. And, in the age of Trump, Gingrich has embraced a President who not only doesn't care about climate change, but even denies it is happening.

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John A. Marshall

If we pass the test, we get to keep the planet (Everglades)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2007

Local Book Review by John Arthur Marshall, (JAMinfo@AOL.com); President
Arthur R. Marshall Foundation and Florida Environmental Institute, Inc. [...]

A Contract with the Earth: Newt Gingrich and Terry Maple; John Hopkins; 2007

Contract with the Earth is an overdue call for local, national and international action in a time of serious need for we planetary occupants to pay much more attention to what we are doing to the planet (destroying our life support system at a seemingly indiscernible rate, with enormous consequences given ubiquitous inaction). This is the major problem that Contract addresses.

Contract might be summarized as a re-call of Teddy Roosevelt conservationism with emphasis on the authors' new advocacy of entrepreneurial environmentalism. All this verges on a matter of insistence, which is good, even great, if twice as many folks that are engaged in the present environmental movement read and heed... Then engage at least one neo-conservationist politician on the need to take on stewardship of the environment as a major issue in the current election debates. We can do it!

As the authors astutely note: Everyone ought to participate in discussions of environmental policies and to that end should have a rudimentary understanding of the processes that make a habitable planet.

Of particular importance in the current elections scenario, the authors identify the need to get the environment elevated as arguably the most important issue confronting society today. How can presidential candidates not pay attention to long-term effects of climate change, and the need for conservation and preservation of what remains of our life support system? A bonus is a call for strategic planning, and adherence to planetary needs.

The authors acknowledge that insufficient attention is being paid by politicians, and with the rest of us, lament that the current administration has been a failure here, even with the late attempt at for lasting legacy to cover inaction regarding potential disastrous consequences in the future.

The author's define the distinction between conservation and preservation in a manner that deserves further consideration. That is left for future readers to discover, in a book that is worth reading, and begging for action by the non-reactive information-overloaded majority.

As President of a tree-planting organization, my most favorite spot in this book is Chapter 8: Renewing the Natural World. This chapter emphasizes the need to preserve rainforests and restore forests and wetlands. Here in Florida we call them forested wetlands, or swamps (lots of cypress and custard apple trees and related species normally in standing water). In the sequence of quotable quotes at the beginning of each chapter, Chapter 8 also holds my favorite quote:

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest perseveration would vanish. John Muir [Founder Sierra Club]; there were also lots of pine trees in Florida. The past-tense is not good.

This quote is an appropriate sequel to another salient section in Chapter 10, with the mention of Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods. Louv amplifies the need for the younger generation to be more exposed to nature, as previous generations were. Something is missing. Louv points out that staying indoors in front of a computer, rather than more exposure to nature, may lead to nature deficit disorder, which he relates to potential attention deficit disorder and maladjustments in life.

As a sixth generation Floridian, following progress of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) I very much appreciate Newt's observation on page 226:

"Florida has the opportunity to become a laboratory that the entire world studies... There are very few places where you have a complex fragile ecosystem this close to this many people". Newt, Associated Press, 1997. Recent AP headlines - Everglades Restoration bogged down - is inappropriate.

The authors also recognize that the proximity of massive land-fills (Mt. Trashmore's we call them) to the Everglades are inappropriate to conservation and preservation of important ecosystems. Currently, local government is considering locating a Mt. Trashmore right next to the Arthur R. Marshall National Wildlife Refuge, a primary subject of CERP implementation. Not only will the landfill be a dominant terrain feature, the creatures this will attract will pose a serious threat to native wildlife, especially wading birds. This could also pose a serious threat to federal funding.

The authors also implore us (again!) to think globally and act locally. OK Palm Beachers, CERP implementation is also about sustaining a viable water supply. This is need to know stuff.

Unfortunately the behavior of government toward CERP, especially in the current federal administration, is much like the authors describe:

The American government, however continues to posture and vent, unable or unwilling to commit or act decisively.... Except possibly to give development overwhelming priority.

If there is one thing that might call for a little reconsideration, it is the authors' inclination to view technological solutions as sometimes preferable to natural one's, without mentioning the precautionary principle, an approach advocated by scientists when there is a dearth of knowledge. Scientists caution on reliance of engineered solutions, as there are always unforeseen, usually adverse consequences here. Humankind's intrusions require natural solutions. Natural solutions are most often perpetual, and the most cost-effective. OK, green energy may be an exception.

At the onset, Contract challenges the readers to take a Test to determine whether (or not) you (the reader) is a mainstream environmentalist. In the end the authors challenge the readers to support the broad principles of the contract, by contributing time and ideas to create together a new kind of environmental movement.

From the Everglades Restoration endeavor, a more widely applicable quote is attributed to the Mother of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author of Everglades, River of Grass:

If we pass the Test we get to keep the planet!

DISCLAIMER: The Author of this review, an Everglades restoration advocate, is not a professional book reviewer.

John Arthur Marshall
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Environmentalism: The Devil Is in the Details

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2007

In "A Contract with the Earth," Newt Gingrich and Terry Maple correctly plead for a bipartisan approach to environmentalism. Gingrich and Maple also rightly emphasize the importance of objectivity, education, green entrepreneurship, partnership of government at all levels with organizations and businesses, the need for a long-term vision, and U.S. world leadership in tackling environmental ills. Unfortunately, "A Contract with the Earth" is ultimately of uneven quality.

To their credit, Gingrich and Maple convincingly show what green entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships can achieve in reducing the human footprint on nature in some particular cases. Chapters 5 and 6 will be of particular interest to readers looking for some success stories such as Costa Rica, Walt Disney, Shell Oil, and Geoplasma. Gingrich and Maple also review with clarity in chapter 7 what some philanthropists such as the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Richard Branson's Virgin Fuels are working on to address some environmental ills. Furthermore, Gingrich and Maple remind readers that open societies are more receptive to environmental and social reform. Finally, Gingrich and Maple call in chapter 9 for political leaders of substance who exhibit some of the characteristics that Jim Collins has identified in his best-seller "Good to Great."

Unfortunately, Gingrich and Maple seem at times to over-simplify the challenges at hand. Here follow a few examples for illustration purposes only:

1. Gingrich and Maple note that in some respects, the population problem (in the third world) is solving itself, with birth rates falling as nations develop healthy economies with stable, predictable futures. Both authors also point out that the U.S. can handle overpopulation most effectively by targeting foreign aides for emerging democracies with a stable rule of law and growing economies. Unfortunately, Gingrich and Maple fail to mention that U.S. support for family planning abroad began to decline in 1996. The U.S. is not alone in this area. As Jonathon Porritt, Chair, U.K. Sustainable Development Commission, rightly states in BBC-sponsored Planet Earth, good family planning is all about empowering women and girls with literacy and better healthcare to bring birth rates down. Furthermore, both authors omit to mention that the current U.S. administration has banned funding to groups that provides or promotes abortion. Unlike the other regions of the world, Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, is experiencing fast and ultimately unsustainable population growth as John May of the World Bank and Jean-Pierre Guengant of IRD (French Research Institute for Development) recently observed.

2. Gingrich and Maple lament that the American Government, both Congress and the President, is not doing enough in addressing environmental challenges. However, many Americans are wary of pushing the American Government too far, too fast, because of the high costs involved in solving environmental problems. The new, imperfect compromise over CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards illustrates this point very well.

3. Gingrich and Maple also plead for a plan to significantly and rapidly reduce U.S. dependence on (foreign) oil by considering a serious switch from fossils fuels to renewable alternatives. Since 1974, all U.S. presidents have called for energy independence, but all have failed in this endeavor. Despite the rhetoric, U.S. reliance on foreign oil increased from 36.1% in 1974 to 65.5% in 2006 according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Americans use more oil per person than any other country in the world, with the possible exception of some oil-exporting states. 2/3 of all oil consumed in the U.S. is used for powering U.S. cars and trucks according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The new changes to CAFE standards will probably not significantly alter this picture, especially when one considers the existing vehicle mix and the expected increase in the number of cars and trucks on U.S. roads in the coming decades. In addition, the recent increase in renewable alternatives like ethanol is not without side effects. Think for example about the recent inflation in food prices.

To summarize, Gingrich and Maple offer some interesting ideas in "A Contract with the Earth" to tackle environmental ills. Unfortunately, their book reads at times like an over-simplification of the environmental issues that need to be addressed to find some balance between humanity and its environment.

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