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Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist

In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams''s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America''s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?

We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monumentsacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which

Erosion

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 13 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9781250758248
      978-1250758248
      ISBN-10 1250758246
      Also in:
      Environmentalist thought and ideology Nature and the natural world: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist

      In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams''s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America''s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?

      We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monumentsacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which

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