As a child, Michael Charles Tobias encountered a wolf caged in a
zoo. Gazing upon the pacing, desperate animal, Tobias asked his
Father, "Why is he in jail?" For over half a century, Tobias has
roamed the earth in search of an answer. This memoir is a testimony
to Tobias' field research, expeditions, deliberations, and some
answers to that haunting question. Systems ecologist, philosopher,
historian of ideas, anthropologist, ethicist and philanthropist,
Tobias has emerged as one of the most influential and far-reaching
ecological philosophers of this generation. The Earth in Fragments:
A Memoir by Michael Charles Tobias chronicles many of his most
incisive areas of research, activism and philosophical inflections.
Much of the data, conveyed in a personal and enlightening series of
recollections, lends incisive clarity to the emergence and
escalating challenges of the environmental and life sciences
fields. Tobias shares glimpses into many of the often
ethically-harrowing research conundrums confronting him and his
wife, Jane Gray Morrison, as they have effectively endeavoured
throughout the globe, focusing upon animal rights and conservation
biology initiatives. Their more than 50 books and 75 films have
shed a powerful spotlight on many of the most pressing issues of
our time. The anecdotes pour forth, from an ancient monastery in
the Sinai, across the Himalayas, to the Arctic and Antarctic, where
Tobias was among the first to draw global attention to the crises
mounting across the Last Continent. We see him behind the scenes,
directing the ambitious ten-hour drama, "Voice of the Planet" in
two-dozen countries, examining the Gaia Hypothesis; conducting a
project in the heart of the 1989 catastrophic oil spill in Alaska;
his irrepressible quest to understand the runaway train of human
overpopulation across the planet in his book and accompanying PBS
film "World War III." We follow his probing philosophical
meditations-in-action as an animal liberationist from California,
Mali, Kenya, China, Greece and Russia. We see his appeal for a "new
human nature" in cutting-edge scientific research calling for an
interspecies revolution that is at once pantheistic, ethically
holistic, and as imaginative and ecologically paradoxical as it is
pragmatic. The reader is led through a dazzling and provocative
labyrinth of deeply moving eco-science in countries like New
Zealand, Madagascar, Brazil, Chile's Rapa Nui, and throughout
Europe, West Africa and Asia. From the Ecuadorian Amazon to Haiti;
from Mozambique, Yemen, and Namibia to Borneo, Tobias and Morrison
have worked to bring critical conservation strategies and policy
priorities to government leaders and scientists throughout the
world. With insights from palaeontology, Renaissance art history,
deep demography, and the most recent advances in biodiversity
conservation and biosemiotics, Tobias leads readers on an exquisite
and uplifting journey that, while describing much devastation,
provides hopeful glimpses into a near future that is not only
possible, but essential for the well-being of the world, as viewed,
lived and chronicled by one man at the heart of the Anthropocene.
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