EarthLove - Sochaczewski, Paul Spencer
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There is a war to save the rainforests of Borneo EarthLove, a satiric eco-adventure, chronicles the history of the global conservation movement and exposes battles pitting ego and greed versus noble intentions. Who has the power to stop the rape of the Borneo rainforest? Rich, virile senator Rod Lawrence promoting left-brain economic arguments? Proto-pagan ethnobotanist Kristin Borin who leads a sensual "Love the Earth, Love Yourself" movement? Or perhaps two powerful and brilliant eco-saboteurs-women who so love orangutans they attempt to destroy the oil palm industry, regardless of legal,…mehr

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There is a war to save the rainforests of Borneo EarthLove, a satiric eco-adventure, chronicles the history of the global conservation movement and exposes battles pitting ego and greed versus noble intentions. Who has the power to stop the rape of the Borneo rainforest? Rich, virile senator Rod Lawrence promoting left-brain economic arguments? Proto-pagan ethnobotanist Kristin Borin who leads a sensual "Love the Earth, Love Yourself" movement? Or perhaps two powerful and brilliant eco-saboteurs-women who so love orangutans they attempt to destroy the oil palm industry, regardless of legal, financial, ethical, or moral consequences? EarthLove, which has been compared to Catch-22 in the way it addresses a serious issue with dark humor, highlights the hidden underbelly of the global conservation movement, links between our consumer culture and the natural world, man's seemingly insatiable greed, and the struggle to save orangutans, arguably everybody's favorite wild animal. Sochaczewski, who lived with people of the rainforest in Borneo and spent decades leading international rainforest conservation campaigns, poses critical questions about one of the most important conservation issues we face. Is there hope for the people of the rainforest? For the orangutans? For the forces of good to outlast the armies of evil?
Autorenporträt
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is an award-winning Geneva, Switzerland-based writer and writing coach. While at WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature International), Paul created global public awareness campaigns to protect rainforests and biological diversity, then later developed the WWF Faith and Environment program. Paul has lived and worked in more than 80 countries, including two decades in Southeast Asia. He has written more than 600 bylined articles on conservation, wildlife, orangutan intelligence, and social change for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, CNN Traveller, Reader's Digest, and the Royal Geographical Society magazine Geographical. He has written 14 books on subjects ranging from golf (Distant Greens) and speaking with dead people (Dead, But Still Kicking) to a handbook on how to write your personal story (Share Your Journey). In addition, he has written about the nature of Borneo in Malaysia: Heart of Southeast Asia; served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia; and was project initiator for Tanah Air: Celebrating Indonesia's Biodiversity. He spent 40 years following the Southeast Asian trail of Victorian British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who developed the Theory of Natural Selection and got usurped by Charles Darwin. For more information, visit Paul's website (www.sochaczewski.com) or his Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spencer_Sochaczewski).