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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: once and future world
    sub title: nature as it was, as it is, as it could be
  name:
    name part: MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard)
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 232 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making, and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a diminished world of our own making. In The Once and Future World, MacKinnon invites us to remember nature as it was, to reconnect to nature in a meaningful way, and to remake a wilder world everywhere. He goes looking for landscapes untouched by human hands. He revisits a globe exuberant with life, where lions roam North America and ten times more whales swim in the sea. He shows us that the vestiges of lost nature surround us every day. Buy an avocado at the grocery store and you have a seed designed to pass through the digestive tracts of huge animals that have been driven extinct. The Once and Future World is a call for an "age of rewilding," from planting milkweed for butterflies in our own backyards to restoring animal migration routes that span entire continents. We choose the natural world that we live in, a choice that also decides the kind of people we are.
  table of contents: Part I. The Nature of the Problem -- Illusions of Nature -- Knowledge Extinction -- A Ten Percent World -- The Opposite of Apocalypse -- Part II. The Nature of Nature -- A Beautiful World -- Ghost Acres -- Uncertain Nature -- What Nature Looks Like -- Part III. Human Nature -- The Maker and the Made -- The Age of Rewilding -- Double Disappearance -- The Lost Island -- Epilogue.
  note: J.B. MacKinnon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Effect of human beings on
  subject:
    topic: Wilderness areas
  subject:
    topic: Natural areas
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental ethics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental disasters
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard)
      name part: 1970-
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Ecology
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
  classification: GF75 .M322 2013
  classification: 304.2
  identifier: 9780544103054 (hardback)
  identifier: 054410305X (hardback)
  identifier: 2013032235
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130812
    record change date: 20151206085437.0
    record identifier: in00003344536