World on Fire: Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet Rowlands Mark
World on Fire: Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet Rowlands Mark Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence.…
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World on Fire: Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet Rowlands Mark
Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Species are disappearing hundreds or thousands of times faster than normal. Our climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if unchecked, disastrous.
Focusing on food choices as far more central to the issue than commonly recognized, he argues that the solution is breaking our collective habit of eating animals. COVID-19 has wreaked social and economic havoc but is merely the latest off a blossoming production line of emerging infectious diseases, many of which have the potential to be far worse.Rowlands establishes that all three problems are consequences of choices we have made about energy, which can be divided into two major forms: fuel and food. Rowlands shows that in doing so, we stem our insatiable hunger for