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On Extinction
Author | : Melanie Challenger |
Publsiher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781640094635 |
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Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine "why" and "what's next."
On Extinction
Author | : Melanie Challenger |
Publsiher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781619021440 |
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Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine "why" and "what's next."
On Extinction
Author | : Melanie Challenger |
Publsiher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781847083920 |
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In Cornwall, hiking around the half-buried ruins of an old tin mine, Melanie Challenger started to think about the things that have disappeared from our world. When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. For the first time, humans had to contemplate the idea of extinction. Challenger became fascinated by this idea, and started to consider how we think about the things we have lost, and, indeed, how we come to lose them. From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, On Extinction is a passionate exploration of these disappearances and why they should concern us. Challenger asks questions about how we've become destructive to our environment, our emotional responses to extinctions, and how these responses might shape our future relationship with nature. She travels to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia, the melting icescape of Antarctica and the Inuit camps of the Arctic, where she traces the links between human activities and environmental collapse. On Extinction is an account of Challenger's journey that brings together ideas about cultural, biological and industrial extinction in a beautiful, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book.
Extinction
Author | : Ashley Dawson |
Publsiher | : OR Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781682190418 |
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Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. Headlines today are made by the existential threat confronting remaining large animals such as rhinos and pandas. But the devastation summoned by humans extends to humbler realms of creatures including beetles, bats and butterflies. Researchers generally agree that the current extinction rate is nothing short of catastrophic. Currently the earth is losing about a hundred species every day. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. This attack has its genesis in the need for capital to expand relentlessly into all spheres of life. Extinction, Dawson argues, cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. To achieve this we need to transgress the boundaries between science, environmentalism and radical politics. Extinction: A Radical History performs this task with both brio and brilliance.
On Extinction
Author | : Ben Ware |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2024-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781788739993 |
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"This path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time." —Dany Nobus, author of Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason Philosophy at the end of the world On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality. Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need. Combining lessons from Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Lacan, as well as drawing on popular culture and ecology, Ware recasts the most urgent issue of our times and resolves that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point.
The Quiet Extinction
Author | : Kara Rogers |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780816531066 |
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The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent's natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts underway to save them.
Return from Extinction
Author | : Linda Lea Richards |
Publsiher | : Orca Wild |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 145982136X |
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This nonfiction book for middle readers tells the story of the northern elephant seal, from being hunted to near extinction less than 100 years ago to their thriving population of more than 250,000 today. Illustrated with photos from the author.
Mere Extinction
Author | : Evie Christie |
Publsiher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781773056814 |
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“Christie’s audacious writing pulses with life and, yes, movement.” — Globe and Mail In Evie Christie’s third book mothers nurse babies as the world comes to an end, fathers hustle or drift, the pastoral and the present collide, violence, love, and death gently fill the space and time they have been given. As surreal as they are domestic, Christie’s poems navigate the world they are in, struggle with history, the immediate, and what Richard Polt’s investigation of Heidegger would describe as “the emergency being.” Bog Girl After Seamus Heaney I waited too long, was left waiting and here I am in my fruit-white youth, too young to go untouched, a balmy small-town dream touched up with pink where it mattered. Remember the ways you wanted to touch and did not and finally broke in through the window and did until I got smart and found their sophistication: loveless bliss, made over and over ’til the earth packed under my nails was gone. Find me here, waiting, gone blue and winter cold, make out my parts from the windowsill, not gleaming, all the same, the same as ever.