End of the Wild

Name: End of the Wild
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ISBN: 9780262134736

ISBN-10: 026213473X

ISBN-13: 9780262134736

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen M. Meyer, Deborah Chasman, Anne H. Ehrlich

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With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the weedy species--from mosquitoes to coyotes--that thrive in continually disturbed human-dominated environments. The End of the Wildis a wake-up call. Marshaling evidence from the last ten years of research on the environment, Stephen Meyer argues that nothing--not national or international laws, global bioreserves, local sustainability schemes, or "wildlands"--will change the course that has been set. Like it or not, we can no longer talk about…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 108
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

The late Stephen M. Meyer was a professor of Political Science at MIT. In 2005 he was awarded the Francis W. Sargent Conservation Award by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.




The extinction crisis is over



Weedy species, relics, and ghosts



The case of the tiger salamander



How we transform nature into a product of our imagination



Why doing nothing would be worse



Our moral obligation



We have lost the wild for now


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