Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this visionary blueprint for saving the planet (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed--such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others--Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all (Oliver Sacks).
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Wilson's passion for the planet shines through on these pages. He looks at life in its broadest, grandest sweep...Wilson is a thinker in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt.--Matthew Price
Few experts have offered such an exuberant and optimistic plan for dealing with [climate change] as biologist Edward O. Wilson...The strength of his argument lies in his ability to elegantly unveil the bigger picture, and to define and examine what in our essential human nature has led us to this point...[W]e need Wilson's reminder that we are not demigods, but are instead, as he puts it, 'a biological species tied to this particular biological world.'--Jessi Phillips
As an outline of our terrible ecological plight, it does a first-class job.--Robin McKie
