Half-earth : our planet's fight for life / Edward O. Wilson.
In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. 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. If we are to undertake such an ambitious endeavor, we first must understand just what the biosphere is, why it's essential to our survival, and the manifold threats now facing it. In doing so, Wilson describes how our species, in only a mere blink of geological time, became the architects and rulers of this epoch and outlines the consequences of this that will affect all of life, both ours and the natural world, far into the future.
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- ISBN: 9781631490828
- ISBN: 1631490826
- Physical Description: 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016]
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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