Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life - Softcover

Edward O. Wilson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631492527 ISBN 13: 9781631492525

Publisher: Liveright, 2017

Synopsis

"Listen up: it could literally mean the world to us." Karen Shook, Times Higher Education

History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent. Refusing to believe that our extinction is 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. Half-Earth is a resounding conclusion to the best-selling trilogy begun by the "splendid" (Financial Times) The Social Conquest of Earth and "engaging and highly readable" (Times Higher Education) The Meaning of Human Existence.

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Review

"...the conclusion to [Edward O. Wilson's] best-selling trilogy..." --BBC Wildlife

"As an outline of our terrible ecological plight, it [Half-Earth] does a first-class job. Wilson is, if nothing else, a gifted wordsmith and Half-Earth is a much-needed antidote to the views of those who assert that our worldly woes are exaggerated and that everything is tickety-boo in the Garden of Eden."

--The Observer

"... in his new, important work Half-Earth... Wilson's gauntlet has been thrown: let the revolution begin."

--Geographical

"His book...is provocative in all the best ways."

--The Guardian

"Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all."

--Oliver Sachs

"If humankind finds a way to live in peace together, and in harmony with nature, Wilson will have played a unique role in that deliverance."

--Jeffrey Sachs

About the Author

Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than twenty books, including The Creation, The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence, and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1631492527
• ISBN 13: 9781631492525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272