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• Preface and Acknowledgements Invitation
• Part 1: Tales from the Woods Introduction 1.1 Somewhere in Northern Karelia... 1.2 Pitch-black and firelight 1.3 In the shadow of tree being 1.4 Ta, Da, Ca
• Part 2: Spitting, Climbing, Soaring, Falling Introduction 2.1 The foamy saliva of a horse 2.2 The mountaineer's lament 2.3 On flight 2.4 Sounds of snow
• Part 3: Going to Ground Introduction 3.1 Scissors paper stone 3.2 Ad coelum 3.3 Are we afloat? 3.4 Shelter 3.5 Doing time
• Part 4: The Ages of the Earth Introduction 4.1 The elements of fortune 4.2 A stone's life 4.3 The jetty 4.4 On extinction 4.5 Three short fables of self-reinforcement
• Part 5: Line, Crease and Thread Introduction 5.1 Lines in the landscape 5.2 The chalk-line and the shadow 5.3 Fold 5.4 Taking a thread for a walk 5.5 Letter-line and strike-through
• Part 6: For the Love of Words Introduction 6.1 Words to meet the world 6.2 In defence of handwriting 6.3 Diabolism and philophilia 6.4 Cold blue steel Au revoir.
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We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with whom, and with which, we dwell upon the earth. In this book, anthropologist Tim Ingold corresponds with landscapes and forests, oceans and skies, monuments and artworks. To each he brings the same spontaneity of thought and observation, the same intimacy and lightness of touch, but also the same affection, longing and care that, in the days when we used to write letters by hand, we would bring to our correspondences with one another. The result is a profound yet accessible inquiry into ways of attending to the world around us, into the relation between art and life, and into the craft of writing itself. At a time of environmental crisis, when words so often seem to fail us, Ingold points to how the practice of correspondence can help restore our kinship with a stricken earth.
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• The anthropocene as a frame of reference
• The human dilemma in the anthropocene
• Energy transitions in history and their impacts
• How conceptual factors like law helped lead to the anthropocene
• An overview of the failures of environmental law
• Key examples of the inadequacy of environmental law
• What is ecological law?
• A mutually enhancing human-earth relationship as the primary goal for law
• The systems-based perspective underlying ecological law
• The limits-insistent narrative and planetary boundaries
• Eleven core features of ecological law
• Ecological integrity and attachment to place in ecological law
• A systems-based guide for moving from environmental to ecological law
• Overcoming ecological challenges of international trade : an illustration
• The degrowth movement as a testing ground for ecological law.

"This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth's human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity's social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why contemporary law is inadequate for confronting this dilemma. The book goes on to propose ecological law-law that maintains human activity within ecological limits such as planetary boundaries while ensuring social justice and equity-as an essential element of an urgently needed radical pathway of change toward a perpetual, mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Finally, it offers a systems-based analytical tool for organizing actions to promote the transition from environmental to ecological law. Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental law and governance"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1 EPOCHAL TRANSITIONS
• 2 POPULATIONS
• 3 AGRICULTURES AND DIETS
• 4 ENERGIES
• 5 ECONOMIES
• 6 ENVIRONMENT
• 7 OUTCOMES AND OUTLOOKS.
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What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization-in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics-which have transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant energy use, and expanding economic opportunities. Simultaneously, in other parts of the world, hundreds of millions remain largely untouched by these developments. Through erudite storytelling, Vaclav Smil investigates the fascinating and complex interactions of these transitions. He argues that the moral imperative to share modernity's benefits has become more acute with increasing economic inequality, but addressing this imbalance would make it exceedingly difficult to implement the changes necessary for the long-term preservation of the environment. Thus, managing the fifth transition-environmental changes from natural-resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and global warming-will determine the success or eventual failure of the grand transitions that have made the world we live in today.
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• The wetlands of Turkey
• Sediments
• Moral ecologies of infrastructure
• Caring for the delta
• Emergent wetland animals.

"This book offers an account of ecological and infrastructural transformations in Turkey's expansive swamps and marshes against the backdrop of authoritarian rule and the rise of wetland conservation science. Here, wetlands become an important site of everyday contestation for human and non-human livelihoods in a time of uncertain politics and in precarious and rapidly changing environments. Scaramelli analyzes the epistemological and affective practices that produce non-humans as political subjects, bringing environmental history and the history of science into conversation with ethnographic writing and anthropological theory"-- Provided by publisher.

"Singularizing progressive time bounds pasts, presents, and futures to cause-effect chains overdetermining existence in education and social life more broadly. Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place disrupts the common sense of "futures" in education or "knowledge for the future" by examining the multiplicity of possible destinies in coexistent experiences of living and learning. Taking place is the intention this book has to embody and word multiplicity across the landscapes that sustain life. The book contends that Indigenous perspectives open spaces for new forms of sociality and relationships with knowledge, time, and landscapes. Through Goanna walking and caring for Country; conjuring encounters between forests, humans, and the more-than-human; dreams, dream literacies, and planes of existence; the spirit realm taking place; ancestral luchas; Musquem Land pedagogies; and resoluteness and gratitude for atunhetsla/the spirit within, the chapters in the collection become politicocultural and (hi)storical statements challenging the singular order of the future towards multiple encounters of all that is to come. In doing so, Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place offers various points of departure to (hi)story educational futures more responsive to the multiplicities of lives in what has not yet become. The contributors in this volume are Indigenous women, women of Indigenous backgrounds, Black, Red, and Brown women, and women whose scholarship is committed to Indigenous matters across spaces and times. Their work in the chapters often defies prescriptions of academic conventions, and at times occupies them to enunciate ontologies of the not yet. As people historically fabricated "women, " their scholarly production critically intervenes on time to break teleological education that births patriarchal-ized and master-ized forms of living. What emerges are presences that undiscipline education and educationalized social life breaking futures out of time. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Indigenous studies, future studies, post-colonial studies in education, settler colonialism and coloniality, diversity and multiculturalism in education, and international comparative education"-- Provided by publisher.

• In search of a messianic ecology
• Philosophy's degrowth for a generic ecology
• The house of philosophy in ruins
• The antinomy of ecology and philosophy
• The unification of the lived-without-life and being-in-the-last-humanity
• Ecology as quantum of the messianic lived
• Conclusion : ethics between ecology and messianity.

"This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning, the environment and sustainable development - about our struggles with the natural world; first for survival, then for dominance, currently for self-preservation, and in future perhaps, even for long-term, mutually-beneficial co-existence. It charts the long arc of human-environment relationships through the specific lens of human learning, putting on record many of the people, ideas and events that have contributed, often unwittingly, to the global movement for sustainable development. Human learning has always had a focus on the environment. It's something we've been engaged in ever since we began interacting with our surroundings and thinking about the impacts, outcomes and consequences of our actions and interactions. This unique story, told by the authors is episodic rather than a connected, linear account; it probes, questions and re-examines familiar issues from novel perspectives, and looks ahead. The book is of particular interest to those studying (and teaching) courses with a focus on socio-economic and environmental sustainability, and NGOs whose work brings them face-to-face with the general public and social enterprises"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword / by Clark L. Erickson
• Archaeology of invisible landscapes / Stéphen Rostain
• Pedological perspective : concepts and facts / Michel Brossard and Jeanne Brancier
• Soil micromorphology / Jeanne Brancier and Cécilia Cammas
• Physicochemical analysis of neotropical soils / Jeanne Brancier, Amandine Courte, Dominique Todisco and Michel Brossard
• Magnetic properties of soils / François Lévêque
• Geomagnetic survey / François Lévêque
• Pedestrian archaeological surveys in Neotropical rainforests / Mickael Mestre and Martijn Van Den Bel
• Detecting ditched sites on LiDAR-generated digital elevation models : from technical specifications to interpretation keys / Mickaël Mestre, Grégoire Vincent, Caroline Bedeau, Nina Antonoff, Olivier Brunaux, Pierre Gautreau and Matthieu Noucher
• Phytoliths : a tool for Neotropical historical ecology, with focus on bamboodominated forests / Laurent Bremond and Charly Favier
• Anthracology in the tropics : how wood charcoals help us to better understand today ecosystems / Stéphanie Bodin, Julie Morin-Rivat, Laurent Bremond, Rita Scheel-Ybert, Christophe Tardy and Christophe Vaschalde
• Forest trees inventories / Jean-François Molino, William Balée, Julien Engel, Claire Martin and Daniel Sabatier
• Historical genomics / Louise Brousseau, Pauline Garnier-Gere and Charles R. Clement
• Landscape-scale study of soil communities / Nina Gazal, Antoine Brin, Sophie Manzi, Emeline Houël, Emmanuel Lapied, Thibaud Decaëns and Mélanie Roy
• The multiple roles of soil animals in the interpretation of archaeological soils and sediments in lowland tropical South America / Doyle Mckey, Delphine Renard and Rumsaïs Blatrix
• History and ethnohistory of ancient settlements / Pierre Grenand and Damien Davy
• Ethnoecology of landscape uses and interpretations / Damien Davy, Pierre Grenand and Guillaume Odonne
• From single species to multiethnic ethnobotanical databases to understand past land use / Guillaume Odonne, Damien Davy and Pierre Grenand
• Historical ecology as an instrument in defence of forest peoples : reflections from the Tapajós River, Brazil / Bruna Cigaran Da Rocha and Vinicius Eduardo Honorato De Oliveira
• Applied historical ecology / William Balée and Meredith Dudley
• Conclusion. Historical ecology : challenges and perspectives in a changing world / Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and andré Braga Junqueira.

"This book presents some of the most recent tools, methods and concepts in historical ecology. It introduces students and researchers to state of the art techniques and showcases a wide array of methods dedicated to understanding the history of tropical landscapes. The chapters cover the detection and characterization of archaeological features, living organisms as witnesses of past human activities, ethno-ecological knowledge of ancient anthropogenic landscapes, and societal impacts of historical ecology. Whilst mainly based on Amazonian experiences, the contributions aim to strengthen synergies between disciplines and to propose solutions that can be applied elsewhere in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book argues that humans have a natural, biologically driven preference for organic form in syntax and text"-- Provided by publisher.

• Un devenir-termite
• Confinés en un lieu quand même assez vaste
• "Terre" est un nom propre
• "Terre"est un nom féminin, "Univers"un nom masculin
• Troubles d'engendrement en cascade
• "Ici-bas"- sauf qu'il n'y a pas de haut
• Laisser l'Économie remonter à la surface
• Décrire un territoire, mais à l'endroit
• Le dégel du paysage
• Multiplication des corps mortels
• Reprise des ethnogenèses
• De bien étranges batailles
• S'égailler dans toutes les directions
• Pour en savoir un peu plus.

"Depuis la terrible expérience du confinement, les États comme les individus cherchent tous comment se déconfiner, en espérant revenir aussi vite que possible au "monde d'avant" grâce à une "reprise" aussi rapide que possible. Mais il y a une autre façon de tirer les leçons de cette épreuve, en tout cas pour le bénéfice de ceux que l'on pourrait appeler les terrestres. Ceux-là se doutent qu'ils ne se déconfineront pas, d'autant que la crise sanitaire s'encastre dans une autre crise bien plus grave, celle imposée par le Nouveau Régime Climatique. Si nous en étions capables, l'apprentissage du confinement serait une chance à saisir : celle de comprendre enfin où nous habitons, dans quelle terre nous allons pouvoir enfin nous envelopper - à défaut de nous développer à l'ancienne ! Où suis-je ? fait assez logiquement suite au livre précédent, Où atterrir ? Comment s'orienter en politique. Après avoir atterri, parfois violemment, il faut bien que les terrestres explorent le sol où ils vont désormais habiter et retrouvent le goût de la liberté et de l'émancipation mais autrement situées. Tel est l'objet de cet essai sous forme de courts chapitres dont chacun explore une figure possible de cette métaphysique du déconfinement à laquelle nous oblige l'étrange époque où nous vivons."--Page 4 of cover.

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Environcide, Society, and Total War
• 1. The Dogs of War and the Water Wolf in Holland: Environcide during the Late 16th-Century Dutch Revolt
• 2. Scorched Earth, Black Legend: Environcide and the Early 16th-Century Spanish Conquest of America
• 3. Environcide in the Dutch Golden Age: The Thirty Years War in Brabant, 1621-48
• 4. Raiders and Refugees: Environcide, Displacement, and Disease in 17th-Century Eastern North America

• 5. (Un)Limited War and Environcide in the Age of Reason: The Low Countries, France, and Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14
• 6. Total War and Environcide in the Age of Reason: The Low Countries, France, and Italy during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48
• 7. A Global Way of War in the Age of Reason: Environcide and Genocide in 18th-Century America, Africa, and Asia
• 8. Refugees, Removals, and Reservations: Environcide in the American West in the 19th Century
• 9. Scorched Dutch East Indies: The Late 19th-Century Colonial Conquest of Aceh, Indonesia

• 10. Scorched African Savannas: Colonial Conquest and the First World War in Early 20th-Century Angola and Namibia
• Conclusion: Environcide as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
• Notes
• Index

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment-"environcide"-constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.
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• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Environcide, Society, and Total War
• 1. The Dogs of War and the Water Wolf in Holland: Environcide during the Late 16th-Century Dutch Revolt
• 2. Scorched Earth, Black Legend: Environcide and the Early 16th-Century Spanish Conquest of America
• 3. Environcide in the Dutch Golden Age: The Thirty Years War in Brabant, 1621-48
• 4. Raiders and Refugees: Environcide, Displacement, and Disease in 17th-Century Eastern North America

• 5. (Un)Limited War and Environcide in the Age of Reason: The Low Countries, France, and Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14
• 6. Total War and Environcide in the Age of Reason: The Low Countries, France, and Italy during the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48
• 7. A Global Way of War in the Age of Reason: Environcide and Genocide in 18th-Century America, Africa, and Asia
• 8. Refugees, Removals, and Reservations: Environcide in the American West in the 19th Century
• 9. Scorched Dutch East Indies: The Late 19th-Century Colonial Conquest of Aceh, Indonesia

• 10. Scorched African Savannas: Colonial Conquest and the First World War in Early 20th-Century Angola and Namibia
• Conclusion: Environcide as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
• Notes
• Index

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment-"environcide"-constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.
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A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment-"environcide"-constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.
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• Down the river
• Into the wild
• Up in the air

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"-- Provided by publisher
So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. He she explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. -- adapted from jacket

• Prologue
• 1. The Dragons Are Back
• 2. Recovery from a Crash: Install Circuit Breakers
• 3. Hedges for Bets: Invest in Diversity
• 4. Mind the Net: Defend Against Cascading Failure
• 5. One Size Fits No One: Make Decisions from the Bottom Up
• 6. Cycles of Renewal Acknowledgments Notes References Index.
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Not long ago, the future seemed predictable. Now, certainty about the course of civilization has given way to fear and doubt. Raging fires, ravaging storms, political upheavals, financial collapse, and deadly pandemics lie ahead-or are already here. The world feels less comprehensible and more dangerous, and no one, from individuals to businesses and governments, knows how to navigate the path forward. Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these crises. Through trial and error over the eons, life has evolved astonishing and counterintuitive tricks in order to survive. DeFries details how a handful of fundamental strategies-investments in diversity, redundancy over efficiency, self-correcting feedbacks, and decisions based on bottom-up knowledge-enable life to persist through unpredictable, sudden shocks. Lessons for supply chains from a leaf's intricate network of veins and stock market-saving "circuit breakers" patterned on planetary cycles reveal the power of these approaches for modern life. With humility and willingness to apply nature's experience to our human-constructed world, DeFries demonstrates, we can withstand uncertain and perilous times. Exploring the lessons that life on Earth can teach us about coping with complexity, What Would Nature Do? offers timely options for civilization to reorganize for a safe and prosperous future.
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• The Multidisciplinary Anthropocene
• The Geological Context of the Anthropocene
• The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit and the Great Acceleration
• The Anthropocene and Climate Change
• The Anthropocene and the Biosphere's Transformation
• The "Anthropos" of the Anthropocene
• Economics and Politics of the Anthropocene
• Existential Challenges in the Anthropocene

"Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what "Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in the Anthropocene? While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action."-- Publisher description.

• Introduction
• It's not the end of the world
• Earth's lungs aren't burning
• Enough with the plastic straws
• The sixth extinction is cancelled
• Sweatshops save the planet
• Greed saved the whales, not Greenpeace
• Have your steak and eat it, too
• Saving nature is bomb
• Destroying the environment to save it
• All about the green
• The denial of power
• False gods for lost souls
• Epilogue

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die, " contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction. Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. What's really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.
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