{"product_id":"the-end-of-nature-penguin-modern-classics-9780241514429","title":"The End of Nature Penguin Modern Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e  One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism''s lodestars\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,'' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with insights from the emerging science, Bill McKibben sets out the central developments not only of the environmental crisis now facing us but also the terms of our response, from policy to the fundamental, philosophical shift in our relationship with the natural world which, he argues, could save us. A moving elegy to nature in its pristine, pre-human wildness, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature \u003c\/i\u003eis both a milestone in environmental thought, indispensable to understanding how we arrived here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart science and part poetry, a sensitive and provocative essay of alarm, a kind of song for the wild, a lament for its loss, and a plea for its restoration -- Daniel J. Kevles * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003ePermeated with the immediacy of the Adirondack Mountains, the trees he can see from his window, the changing seasons, the wild creatures he encounters. An extraordinary book -- Jonathon Porritt * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe fundamental book about the planetary change we are undergoing -- Gaia Vince\u003cbr\u003eMcKibben explores the philosophies and technologies that have brought us here, and he shows how final a crossing we have made -- James Gleick","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733155000663,"sku":"9780241514429","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-nature-penguin-modern-classics-9780241514429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}