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Indlæser... Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (original 2016; udgave 2016)af Edward O. Wilson (Forfatter)
Work InformationHalf-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life af Edward O. Wilson (2016)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Professor Wilson's optimism seems a little over the top, but OK, I'm in. ( ) I was somewhat disappointed in this book. The first 2 sections are wonderfully written and I highly recommend the book on the basis of these two sections. The book falls short in the third section. It is a call for action in response to climate change; however, it really falls short especially after the release of the latest climate report. Songwriter Paul Simon, who leafs through books for inspiration ("Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War"), name-checks conservationist Edward O. Wilson on tour. I can imagine Simon browsing randomly through this volume. Among the lithographs of plants and animals are Wilson's musings on taxonomy, rare birds and beasts, UNESCO heritage sites (he elides whether the wild horses grazing in the Białowieża Forest are the extinct tarpan) and the folly of assuming we can science our way out of monoculture risk. His cause is a vast expansion of the world's nature preserves, but his plan seems simply to share his enthusiasm for the natural world. Works for me. E.O. Wilson makes reading about entomology entertaining and enlightening. There is ammo in here to battle the rambunctious garden Anthropocene crowd. Wilson caps off his disdain for such thinking with, "It has been my impression that those most uncaring and prone to be dismissive of the wildlands and the magnificent biodiversity these lands still shelter are quite often the same people who have had the least personal experience with either." Ouch. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: Refusing to accept the mass extinction of species as an inevitability, "the world's greatest naturalist" (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth's imperiled biosphere. Half-Earth resoundingly concludes the best-selling trilogy begun by The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Human Existence, a National Book Award finalist. History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent. Angrily challenging the fashionable theories of Anthropocenes, who contend that humans can survive alone in an Edenic bubble engineered for their own survival, Wilson documents that the biosphere does not belong to us. Yet, refusing to believe that our extinction is, as so many fear, predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending "Sixth Extinction" is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the earth. Suffused with a profound Darwinian understanding of our planet's fragility, Half-Earth is a transformative work that reverberates with an urgency like few other books. .No library descriptions found. |
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