Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth Hiss Tony
A candid assessment of the health of our planet, and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050--thereby saving millions of its species--from the award-winning author of The…
Specifikacia Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth Hiss Tony
A candid assessment of the health of our planet, and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050--thereby saving millions of its species--from the award-winning author of The Experience of Place.Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the superorganism that is the earth: its land, its elements, its plants and animals, its greatest threats--and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive. Hiss not only invites us to understand the scope and gravity of the problems we face, but also makes the case for why protecting half the land is the way to fix those problems. He highlights the important work of the many groups