Here On Earth
A New Beginning
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sometimes it's hard to be an optimist. In an ever more crowded and complex world, new challenges continue to confront us. It would be tempting to give up hope. Tim Flannery is here to offer us a change of perspective. And he is here to inspire us. He...
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Sometimes it's hard to be an optimist. In an ever more crowded and complex world, new challenges continue to confront us. It would be tempting to give up hope. Tim Flannery is here to offer us a change of perspective. And he is here to inspire us. He invites us to consider again our place on earth, what it really means to be alive."Here on Earth" is a revolutionary dual biography of the planet and of our species. Flannery reimagines the history of earth, from its earliest origins as a chaotic ball of elemental dust and gases to the teeming landscape we currently call home. It is a remarkable story. How did life first emerge here? What forces have shaped it? Why did humans come to dominate? And when did we start to have an impact? More importantly, how has this changed us as a species? The awesome hand of nature has never been better portrayed than in this book. Nor, remarkably, the transformative power of ideas. From the most intense competition for survival, cooperation has emerged. The challenge we now face is to sustain our fragile hold on life. Our fate is in our own hands. But first we have to realise who we are.
Autoren-Porträt von Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery, geb. 1956 in Melbourne, lebt als Wissenschaftler, Forscher und Umweltschützer in Australien. Als Zoologe hat er mehr als dreißig neue Arten von Säugetieren entdeckt. Tim Flannery ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher und hat viele Dokumentarfilme gedreht. Er ist Professor für Zoologie und Direktor des South Australian Museum in Adelaide. Er ist im Beirat der Siemens Stiftung und wurde im Februar 2011 von der Australischen Premierministerin zum Chief Climate Commissioner ernannt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tim Flannery
- 2011, 336 Seiten, Maße: 22 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 1846143969
- ISBN-13: 9781846143960
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2011
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Englisch
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