Half-Earth
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An audacious and concrete proposalHalf-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilsons valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet. Jedediah Purdy, New RepublicIn his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 reclaimedsuch as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among othersWilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all (Oliver Sacks).
Why it’s great
To save the diversity of life on Earth, E.O. Wilson's final argument is bold: humanity must commit half the planet's surface to nature. In this urgent, valedictory book, the world's foremost biologist lays out why biodiversity is essential to our survival and why preserving it demands a radical shift in how we think about land and our own species' place in the web of life. A manifesto for the next generation of ecologists.
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