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Publication Date
2017-12-12
Pages
320
ISBN
9781476743912
Book Title
Unnatural World : the Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
Publisher
Scribner
Item Length
8.4 in
Publication Year
2017
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
David Biello
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science
Topic
Environmental / General, General, Global Warming & Climate Change
Item Weight
11.7 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1476743916
ISBN-13
9781476743912
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238828184

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Book Title
Unnatural World : the Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Environmental / General, General, Global Warming & Climate Change
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science
Author
David Biello
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.7 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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"This is the book for our moment, laying out humanity's situation in the Anthropocene very clearly, and all of it infused with Biello's good judgment and his eye for entertaining stories.  Reading it is a pleasure as well as an orientation and a guide to action." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora , The Years of Rice and Salt , and 2312, "Funny, thoughtful, often lyrical, The Unnatural World guides us through the frontiers of environmental innovation, from ecological survey drones to de-extinction, to Mars and back. These are stories of a humanity that is struggling to grow up, take responsibility for the planet that we have made, and be a force for good." --Emma Marris, author of The Rambunctious Garden, "A rigorous and readable investigation of human impacts...Highly significant...an unqualified success." -- Charleston Post and Courier , "David Biello takes us on a wild ride--from South African political rallies to remote Chinese villages to a New York City party for Elon Musk--in his quest to understand this strange new era of the Anthropocene. The Unnatural World is a sensitive, disturbing, and, ultimately, hopeful view of humanity's relentless drive to reshape nature--and the implications for all life on our troubled planet." --Andrew Lawler, author of Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?, "David Biello takes us on a wild ride--from South African political rallies to remote Chinese villages to a New York City party for Elon Musk--in his quest to understand this strange new era of the Anthropocene. The Unnatural World is a sensitive, disturbing, and, ultimately, hopeful view of humanity's relentless drive to reshape nature--and the implications for all life on our troubled planet." --Andrew Lawler, author of Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?, "A thoughtful analysis of how we might move toward a sustainable civilization...Recommended for readers who enjoyed Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe and for anyone who follows the latest developments in climate geoengineering." -- Library Journal, "This is the book for our moment, laying out humanity's situation in the Anthropocene very clearly, and all of it infused with Biello's good judgment and his eye for entertaining stories. Reading it is a pleasure as well as an orientation and a guide to action." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora , The Years of Rice and Salt , and 2312, "A thoughtful analysis of how we might move toward a sustainable civilization...Recommended for readers who enjoyed Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe and for anyone who follows the latest developments in climate geoengineering." -- Library Journal, "Funny, thoughtful, often lyrical,  The Unnatural World  guides us through the frontiers of environmental innovation, from ecological survey drones to de-extinction, to Mars and back. These are stories of a humanity that is struggling to grow up, take responsibility for the planet that we have made, and be a force for good."  --Emma Marris, author of The Rambunctious Garden, "A travelogue with that good human epoch [The Anthropocene] in mind, a trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive." -- The New York Times Book Review, "Biello's absorbing work presents a hopeful alternative to the widespread media forecasts of planetary gloom and doom." -- Booklist, "Biello's stance and sympathies are quite clear, but he thankfully avoids polemics. His approach is unusually balanced; he is keen to show that every coin has a second face, not least the face of hope vs. despair....In this well-written, significant book, Biello insists that humans, the world's most successful invasive species, have the ability to engage in planetary protection and human survival, but it will require wisdom, innovation, and restraint. " -- Kirkus Reviews  (starred review), "Biello's absorbing work presents a hopeful alternative to the widespread media forecasts of planetary gloom and doom." -- Booklist, "Fascinating and wide-ranging, The Unnatural World offers an unflinching look at a planet increasingly under human control. Anyone who cares about the future will want to read it." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, "Leans toward the notion that the solution to our environmental challenges will come from technology, and in that sense it is most welcome." -- The Wall Street Journal, "A rigorous and readable investigation of human impacts...Highly significant...an unqualified success." -- Charleston Post and Courier, "Biello...makes an impassioned case for the proposed [Anthropocene] and describers both what we have done to alter our planet and what we should do in the future to ensure its habitability." -- Scientific American, "An urgent, elegantly-told story of the Earth that humankind has made and, with effort, might yet save." --Alan Burdick, author of Out of Eden, "Biello's stance and sympathies are quite clear, but he thankfully avoids polemics. His approach is unusually balanced; he is keen to show that every coin has a second face, not least the face of hope vs. despair....In this well-written, significant book, Biello insists that humans, the world's most successful invasive species, have the ability to engage in planetary protection and human survival, but it will require wisdom, innovation, and restraint. " -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "As David Biello shows with real power, we clearly live in a world where humans affect all that we once called 'natural.' He argues this means we need to assume the role of global managers; though I don't completely agree, I think his insights and examples are a necessary part of a vital debate." --Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, "A travelogue with that good human epoch [The Anthropocene] in mind, a trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive."  -- The New York Times Book Review
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A brilliant young environmental journalist argues that we must innovate and adapt to save planet Earth in this enlightening "trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive" ( The New York Times Book Review ). With the historical perspective of The Song of the Dodo and the urgency of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth , The Unnatural World chronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward saving the best home humanity is ever likely to have. What is the threat? It is us. In a time when a species dies out every ten minutes, when summers are getting hotter, winters colder, and oceans higher, some people still deny mankind's effect on the Earth. But all of our impacts on the planet have ushered in what qualifies as a new geologic epoch, thanks to global warming, mass extinction, and such technologies as nuclear weapons and plastics. "A futurist ray of hope amid the usual denial and despair" ( Esquire ), The Unnatural World examines the world we have created and analyzes the glimmers of light emerging from the efforts of incredible individuals seeking to change our future. Instead of a world without us, this history of the future shows how to become good gardeners, helping people thrive along with an abundance of plants, animals, all the exuberant profusion of life on Earth--a better world with us. The current era of humans need not be the end of the world--and "Biello describes both what we have done to alter our planet and what we should do in the future to ensure its habitability" ( Scientific American )., Civilization is in crisis, facing disasters of our own making on the only planet known to bear life in the universe. Our impact on Earth has ushered in what qualifies as a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humans have become unwitting gardeners of the planet, setting the conditions under which all life flourishes-or not. In The Unnatural World environmental journalist David Biello reexamines the planet we have cultivated and introduces us to a band of pioneering, optimistic individuals working toward saving the best home humanity will ever have. These unlikely heroes include a scientist experimenting with ocean fertilization to fight global warming, a pigeon-obsessive bent on resurrecting an extinct species, and a low-level government functionary in China cleaning up his industrial city-along with many others. The Unnatural World is a hopeful guidebook to a future Earth in which we become better stewards of our planet, capable of thriving alongside a profusion of plants, animals, and other living things. As Biello shows, if we remake our civilization to create a better environment for all, the current era of human influence need not be the end of the world-just the end of the world as we know it. Book jacket.

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