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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim Flannery |
| ISBN: | 9780802119766 : HRD 080211976X : HRD |
| OCLC Number: | 711986506 |
| Notes: | NOT YET PUBLISHED. |
| Description: | 288 p. ; |
| Contents: | NOTE 505 0 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? |
Abstract:
An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.
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