Inheritors of the Earth : how nature is thriving in an age of extinction
by Thomas, C. D. (Author)
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It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In "Inheritors of the Earth", renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting bac... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Opportunity. Prologue : gains and losses
- Biogenesis
- Part II. New Pangea. Prelude
- Fall and rise
- Never had it so good
- Steaming ahead
- Pangea reunited
- Part III. Genesis six. Prelude
- Heirs to the world
- Evolution never gives up
- The Pangean archipelago
- Hybrid
- Part IV. Anthropocene Park. Prelude
- The new natural
- Noah's Earth
- Epilogue : one million years AD.