Name: On Extinction: How we Became Estranged From Nature
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Author: Melanie Challenger
ISBN: 9781640094635

portada On Extinction: How we Became Estranged From Nature

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Counterpoint

Autor

Melanie Challenger

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781640094635

Categorías

Conservación del medioambiente

On Extinction: How we Became Estranged From Nature

Melanie Challenger (Autor) · Counterpoint · Tapa Blanda

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This "hybrid of travelogue and natural science" by an award-winning author is "truly poetic"--now revised with a new introduction and accompanied by the voices of two young activists calling for new kind of relationship to our planet (The New York Times Book Review).Our era is now dubbed the Anthropocene: The Age of Man. Our species has become the primary cause of the extinction of other life and of the dramatic changes we see across the planet. In her twenties, Melanie Challenger began a series of journeys to explore the link between her own estrangement from nature and these striking transformations. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she began to uncover the connections between human activity and the living world around us. In time, her travels became a loose meditation on extinction, on how losses affect us and why they matter. On Extinction is part travelogue, part environmental history. Woven through her journey are the thoughts of the anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine why and what's next.