Half-earth : our planet's fight for life

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.

Contents:

Part I. The problem. 1. The world ends, twice
2. Humanity needs a biosphere
3. How much biodiversity survives today?
4. An elegy for the rhinos
5. Apocalypses now
6. Are we as gods?
7. Why extinction is accelerating
8. The impact of climate change : land, sea, and air
9. The most dangerous worldview
Part II. The real living world. 10. Conservation science
11. The Lord God species
12. The unknown webs of life
13. The wholly different aqueous world
14. The invisible empire
15. The best places in a biosphere
16. History redefined
Part III. The solution. 17. The awakening
18. Restoration
19. Half-earth : how to save the biosphere
20. Threading the bottleneck
21. What must be done.

Item details

ISBN: 1631490826
ISBN: 9781631490828
Physical Description: 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. The problem. 1. The world ends, twice ; 2. Humanity needs a biosphere ; 3. How much biodiversity survives today? ; 4. An elegy for the rhinos ; 5. Apocalypses now ; 6. Are we as gods? ; 7. Why extinction is accelerating ; 8. The impact of climate change : land, sea, and air ; 9. The most dangerous worldview
Part II. The real living world. 10. Conservation science ; 11. The Lord God species ; 12. The unknown webs of life ; 13. The wholly different aqueous world ; 14. The invisible empire ; 15. The best places in a biosphere ; 16. History redefined
Part III. The solution. 17. The awakening ; 18. Restoration ; 19. Half-earth : how to save the biosphere ; 20. Threading the bottleneck ; 21. What must be done.

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Biodiversity conservation
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