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Countdown - Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? (Paperback)
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Countdown - Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? (Paperback)
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A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future
from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.
In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if
relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that
groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be
inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a
restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with
the rest of nature.
But with a million more of us every 4 1/2 days on a planet that's
not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the
atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for
a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long
awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries
to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important
questions on Earth--and also the hardest: How many humans can the
planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's
ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which
other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we
actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an
economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth?
Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures,
religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn
what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current
circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best
interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of
reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful.
By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative
presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most
acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet
and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is
one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book
whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our
lives and our destiny.
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