Here on earth a natural history of the planet
An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1: Mother Nature or monster earth? Evolution's motive force ; Of genes, mnemes and destruction ; Evolution's legacy ; A fresh look at Earth ; the commonwealth of virtue
- Section 2: A turbulent youth. Man the disrupter ; New worlds ; Biophilia
- Section 3: Ever since agriculture. Superorganisms ; Superorganismic glue ; Ascent of the ultimate superorganism
- Section 4: Toxic climax? War against nature ; Gaia-killers ; The eleventh hour? ; Undoing the work of ages
- Section 5: Our present state. The stars of heaven ; Discounting the future ; Greed and the market ; Of war and inequality ; A new tool kit ; Governance ; Restoring the life-force
- Section 6: An intelligent Earth? What lies on the other side?
