Most Read This Week In Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

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Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild

The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4)

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

The Lost Whale: An Unforgettable Story of Friendship and Hope about a Boy's Ocean Quest to Save a Gray Whale - for Children (Ages 8-12)

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

Den lodande människan: Havet, djupet och nyfikenheten – essäer

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

A Horse Named Sky (Voice of the Wilderness)

Adrift: The Truth Won't Always Set You Free

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest Bet

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter, #2)

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

Call of the Penguins (Veronica McCreedy, #2)

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind

Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i

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“ You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures risi You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. ...more ”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park / Congo

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