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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Kevin McKee |
| ISBN: | 0813531411 9780813531410 0813535581 9780813535586 |
| OCLC Number: | 49704742 |
| Description: | xi, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Sparing Nature -- The Scattered Seeds -- The Human Wedge -- Genesis of a Crisis -- Germs of Existence -- The Great Restrictive Law -- Good to the Last Drop -- Biodiversity in Action -- Epilogue: The Keystone Species with a Choice. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey K. McKee. |
Abstract:
"Are humans too good at adapting to the earth's natural environment? Every day, there is a net gain of more than 200,000 people on the planet - that's 146 a minute. Has our explosive population growth led to the mass extinction of countless species in the earth's plant and animal communities?" "Jeffrey K. McKee contends it has. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing Nature, he explores the cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a richly diverse living world and a rapidly expanding number of people. The author probes the past to find that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture. Today entire ecosystems are in peril due to the relentless growth of the human population."--Jacket.
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