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Impermanence

Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore
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EUR19,50

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5179-1525-4
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date09/01/2024
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 145 mm, Height 203 mm, Thickness 33 mm
Weight340 g
Article no.26716640
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A46943584
Product groupBU676
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I am not the first Dussmann employee to recommend this wonderful book and I suspect I won't be the last either. Flynn's exploration of what she calls the 'post-human landscape' is a fascinating window into what happens to places humans have all but destroyed after we leave. From forest clearings created by WW1 shells to post industrial Scottish landscapes, she casts a rare optimistic glance over the effects of human intervention in the landscape by demonstrating that (although it can take many years) the natural world has an incredible ability to reclaim man-made wasteland and this can have extraordinarily positive effects on biodiversity and even on CO2 levels. Flynn is careful not to get too carried away in her optimism but an uplifting book which looks at the climate crisis is rare - all too often we are left to wallow in our imminent doom - so in many ways it is a breath of fungus cleaned fresh air!
Bill Gates is one of the few super-rich who actually seems to feel some responsibilty attached to his wealth and is currently trying his best to get the world vaccinated. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that he feels strongly enough about the climate crisis to publish a book about it. It's a pleasantly solution-minded approach: he sets out in detail what exactly needs to be achieved and which, in his opinion, is the best way to do so. Clearly enthusiastic about the developing technology, Gates largely puts his faith in scientific funding and advancement. His optimism here comes across as highly knowledgable and justified, only tampered by his lack of plan when it comes to political cooperation. Here though, a lot of the initiative when it comes to tackling the climate crisis has floundered and been torpedoed by other interests. Let's hope Gate's book goes some way in opening politicians eyes everywhere.

Author

Sue Leaf is author of The Bullhead Queen: A Year on Pioneer Lake; A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts; Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life; and 2021 Minnesota Book Award winner Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell, all published by Minnesota. Trained as a zoologist, she writes about environmental and natural history. Her family has owned a cabin outside Port Wing, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior's South Shore for thirty-five years.

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