Edward O. Wilson

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"An audacious and concrete proposal...Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson's valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." Jedediah Purdy, New Republic

In 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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631490835
• Artikelnr.: 59590296

Autorenporträt

Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.