{"product_id":"the-unnatural-world-the-race-to-remake-civilization-in-earths-newest-age-9781476743912","title":"The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant young environmental journalist argues that we must innovate and adapt to save planet Earth in this enlightening \"trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the historical perspective of \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Dodo\u003c\/i\u003e and the urgency of Al Gore's \u003ci\u003eAn Inconvenient Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnatural World \u003c\/i\u003echronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward saving the best home humanity is ever likely to have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What is the threat? It is us. In a time when a species dies out every ten minutes, when summers are getting hotter, winters colder, and oceans higher, some people still deny mankind's effect on the Earth. But all of our impacts on the planet have ushered in what qualifies as a new geologic epoch, thanks to global warming, mass extinction, and such technologies as nuclear weapons and plastics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A futurist ray of hope amid the usual denial and despair\" (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e The Unnatural World \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the world we have created and analyzes the glimmers of light emerging from the efforts of incredible individuals seeking to change our future. Instead of a world without us, this history of the future shows how to become good gardeners, helping people thrive along with an abundance of plants, animals, all the exuberant profusion of life on Earth--a better world with us. The current era of humans need not be the end of the world--and \"Biello describes both what we have done to alter our planet and what we should do in the future to ensure its habitability\" (\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiello, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - David Biello is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on the environment and energy since 1999. He is currently an editor at \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, where he has been a contributor since 2005, and he also contributes frequently to the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYale e360\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNautilus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e. Biello has been a guest on radio shows, such as WNYC's \u003ci\u003eThe Takeaway\u003c\/i\u003e, NHPR's \u003ci\u003eWord of Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e, and PRI's \u003ci\u003eThe World. \u003c\/i\u003eHe hosts the ongoing duPont-Columbia award-winning documentary \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Light Switch\u003c\/i\u003e for PBS. \u003ci\u003eThe Unnatural World \u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415677210898,"sku":"9781476743912","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd56dc10-749a-455b-9ebc-15aa96762f35.jpg?v=1729409155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unnatural-world-the-race-to-remake-civilization-in-earths-newest-age-9781476743912","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}