Half-Earth

Our Planet's Fight for Life

Wilson, Edward O. 저자(글)

Liveright Publishing Corporation · 2017년 04월 04일

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"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." -Jedediah Purdy, New Republic

In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize?winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), 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. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed―such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others―Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

25 illustrations

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저자(글) Wilson, Edward O.

Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than thirty books, including Half-Earth, 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 with his wife, Irene Wilson, in Lexington, Massachusetts.

목차

• Chapter Page
  Prologue 1
  Part I The Problem
  1. The World Ends, Twice 7
  2. Humanity Needs a Biosphere 11
  3. How Much Biodiversity Survives Today? 19
  4. An Elegy for the Rhinos 29
  5. Apocalypses Now 35
  6. Are We As Gods? 47
  7. Why Extinction is Accelerating 53
  8. The Impact of Climate Change: Land, Sea, and Air 65
  9. The Most Dangerous Worldview 71
  Part II The Real Living World
  10. Conservation Science 83
  11. The Lord God Species 95
  12. The Unknown Webs of Life 101
  13. The Wholly Different Aqueous World 113
  14. The Invisible Empire 121
  15. The Best Places in the Biosphere 133
  16. History Redefined 155
  Part III The Solution
  17. The Awakening 169
  18. Restoration 175
  19. Half-Earth: How to Save the Biosphere 185
  20. Threading the Bottleneck 189
  21. What Must Be Done 209
  Sources and Further Reading 213
  Glossary 227
  Appendix 2:9 Illustration Credits 233
  Acknowledgments 237
  Index 239

출판사 서평

“An audacious idea that might jump-start a lagging conversation about a burning issue…[I]f Half-Earth takes us any closer to sparking greater effort, it will cement Wilson’s already remarkable legacy.”
- Mike Weilbacher, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Wilson’s passion for the planet shines through on these pages. He looks at life in its broadest, grandest sweep…Wilson is a thinker in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt.”
- Matthew Price, The National

“Few experts have offered such an exuberant and optimistic plan for dealing with [climate change] as biologist Edward O. Wilson…The strength of his argument lies in his ability to elegantly unveil the bigger picture, and to define and examine what in our essential human nature has led us to this point…[W]e need Wilson’s reminder that we are not demigods, but are instead, as he puts it, ‘a biological species tied to this particular biological world.’”
- Jessi Phillips, Sierra

“As an outline of our terrible ecological plight, it does a first-class job.”
- Robin McKie, Guardian

기본정보

ISBN	9781631492525 ( 1631492527 )
발행(출시)일자	2017년 04월 04일
쪽수	272쪽
크기	140 * 208 * 20 mm / 204 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어