OUR CHALLENGED PLANET is a book about the PEOPLE on the planet and all of the challenges that they are facing, along with the projects and hard work that they are doing to overcome the greed and ignorant or so many others. I have tried to not only tell the story of the challenges but also to give you, the reader, more information and sources of information and hope for the future. Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING was the book that began my environmental awareness. Perhaps some of you will get that same inspiration from my book.