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A World to Live In

An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet

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A World to Live In

Von: George M. Woodwell
Gesprochen von: W.B. Ward
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A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the Earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the Earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future.

The earth is a living system, Woodwell explains, and its stability is threatened by human disruption. The assumption that we can continue to use fossil fuels and "adapt" to climate disruption, Woodwell argues, is a ticket to catastrophe.

But Woodwell points the way toward a solution. We must respect the full range of life on Earth - not species alone, but their natural communities of plant and animal life that have built, and still maintain, the biosphere. We must recognize that the Earth's living systems are our heritage and that the preservation of the integrity of a finite biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.

©2016 George Woodwell (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
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"George Woodwell has brought pathbreaking science, sound policy judgment, and great humanity to the major issues...And it all comes brilliantly through in his informative, highly readable, and bracing new book." (James Gustave Speth, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies)
"From the dean of US climate scientists, a wise and eloquent call to common-sense climate and environmental policy. Its message is authoritative but accessible, urgent without panic, visionary but practical." (David W. Orr, Oberlin College)
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