The once and future world : nature as it was, as it is, as it could be

MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard) 1970- (author.).

Summary: "An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a diminished world of our own making. In The Once and Future World, MacKinnon invites us to remember nature as it was, to reconnect to nature in a meaningful way, and to remake a wilder world everywhere. He goes looking for landscapes untouched by human hands. He revisits a globe exuberant with life, where lions roam North America and ten times more whales swim in the sea. He shows us that the vestiges of lost nature surround us every day: buy an avocado at the grocery store and you have a seed designed to pass through the digestive tracts of huge animals that have been driven extinct. The Once and Future World is a call for an "age of rewilding," from planting milkweed for butterflies in our own backyards to restoring animal migration routes that span entire continents. We choose the natural world that we live in--a choice that also decides the kind of people we are"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780544104600
ISBN: 0544104609
ISBN: 9781299904088
ISBN: 1299904084
ISBN: 9780307362209
ISBN: 0307362205
ISBN: 9780544103054 (hardback)
ISBN: 054410305X (hardback)
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Print version has subtitle: finding wilderness in the nature we've made.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. The Nature of the Problem. Illusions of Nature ; Knowledge Extinction ; A Ten Percent World ; The Opposite of Apocalypse -- Part II. The Nature of Nature. A Beautiful World ; Ghost Acres ; Uncertain Nature ; What Nature Looks Like -- Part III. Human Nature. The Maker and the Made ; The Age of Rewilding ; Double Disappearance ; The Lost Island -- Epilogue.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ebrary platform, viewed April 23, 2014).