The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
The End of Eden
by Adam Welz
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1635575222 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 60.16 MB
by Adam Welz
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1635575222 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 60.16 MB
"Exquisite."-DAVID WALLACE-WELLS "At once an elegy and an exhortation."-ELIZABETH KOLBERT "A book that goes deeper than any before into the meaning of the climate breakdown for all the rest of creation."-BILL McKIBBEN "Celebratory and heartbreaking."-DAVID GEORGE HASKELL
A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems—an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.
The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain—and in many cases driving them towards…