The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

Authors

Diane Ackerman

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"Humans have subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness. We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity ... Ackerman [explores] our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating--perhaps saving--our future and that of our fellow creatures."--Jacket.

ISBN

978-0-393-35164-4

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publisher

W. W. Norton and Company

Disciplines

History

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