At a glance:
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Science and current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Nature, Alienation, Environment or environmental health, Pollution, Energy, Greenhouse effect or global warming
In The End of Nature, Bill McKibben, a young nature writer from the Adirondack region of New York, laments the loss of a pristine natural world untouched by human hands and capable of sustaining and renewing itself indefinitely. With the advent of such global environmental problems as acid rain, the greenhouse effect, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the massive destruction of tropical rain forests, humankind has lost its sense of nature as an infinitely renewable resource capable of absorbing any amount of human alteration. Whatever we think nature...
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