The Vanishing Earth Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction | 9.58 MB
Title: The Vanishing Earth Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction
Author: James Crawford
Category: Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Natural Resources, Science, Earth Sciences, Business & Finance, Industries & Professions, Industries
Language: English | 448 Pages | ISBN: 9781639733231
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"Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers-strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane-who are stretching naturalist observation into incisive cultural inquiry.... Riveting." -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Crawford is at his best when surrendering to his propensity for reverie, an irrepressible, almost romantic sense of wonder that drives the reader from chapter to chapter." -WASHINGTON POST
From the acclaimed author of The Edge of the Plain, a journey to the ravaged frontiers of extractive industry and the promising, often radical alternatives emerging just as we reach the point of exhausting the earth's natural resources.
Over the last half-century, humanity has taken more from the Earth than in all prior history combined. The planet is littered with the vast scars of extraction - yet, ironically, it is only by confronting the...
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