Shannon’s Reviews > First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement > Status Update

He quoted my beloved E. O. Wilson in the conclusion so I don't hate the book anymore 🥰🥰🥰

Uhhh I did NOT know that Michael Crichton, famed science FICTION author who penned Jurassic Park, was dismissive of global warming, visited Bush in the White House and "misrepresented his scientific work & had done so in testimony before Congress... even though he was not a Climate expert... 'propagating false information to the public'"

I'm !! Gunna !! Scream !!

Will this book ever end? The world may never know

🙃🙃 Annabelle just 🙃🙃 dipped the book 🙃🙃 in her kiddy pool 🙃🙃

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Sure did take me like 5 heavily interrupted and distracted hours to read one chapter when I thought maybe I'd move on in half an hour

"Humanity 'power to transform the natural world should entail a commensurate sense of responsibility. That it did not, he warned, constituted one of the gravest threats to the welfare, indeed the survival, of civilization.'" Qtd, George Perkins Marsh

Very surprised to learn that Dandelions are not native to North America

Also I have to get some Thoreau and Emerson under my belt

Recomitting to this book bc I'm recommitting to reading some nonfiction this year.

Have I been carrying this around with me for over a month? Yes. Irrelevant though bc I've finally opened it again