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Half-Earth
- Our Planet's Fight for Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Refusing to accept the mass extinction of species as an inevitability, "the world's greatest naturalist" (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth's imperiled biosphere. Half-Earth resoundingly concludes the best-selling trilogy begun by The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Human Existence, a National Book Award finalist.
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent. Angrily challenging the fashionable theories of anthropocenes, who contend that humans can survive alone in an Edenic bubble engineered for their own survival, Wilson documents that the biosphere does not belong to us. Yet, refusing to believe that our extinction is, as so many fear, predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending "sixth extinction" is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth.
Suffused with a profound Darwinian understanding of our planet's fragility, Half-Earth is a transformative work that reverberates with an urgency like few other books.
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- Pragya Singhal
- 27-08-22
Earth and it's biosphere
Now this was an objective book- you do this and you get that. And that's why half earth is an apt title. The author says that if we can just leave the current species as they are, they will go on to survive, versus what we are doing today and completely disrupting their habitat and killing them all. He puts very strong emphasis on conservation of our current world, and probably take it all through half of earth. He is looking at current trends (supportive such as conservation and dangerous such as geo- engeneering) and calling them out. Overall earth will go through its 12billion touch point and then the population will start to decelerate. But his appeal is to keep the natural habitat conserved till then, else human population can cause the doom of the entire living world.
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