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Here on Earth: An Argument For Hope
Tim Flannery
Text ISBN 9781921758720
Paperback
2011
Price $AU 24.95
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Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrous effects on many of the Earth's ecosystems and could lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life on our planet. It will change the way you live.
"Tim Flannery shows us what is special about humans here on Earth; we are the first organisms in over three billion years who have changed their planet simply by taking thought." - James Lovelock