This was an eye opening issue. I've been pretty pessimistic about the future of biodiversity, but this book you profiled offers a new paradigm:. shifting us from museum keepers resisting change to supporters assisting natural change,. A really encouraging newsletter! I am today ordering the book where all by itself it will counterbalance a half shelf of doom and gloom texts.
Thank you very much! I'm glad this review was helpful to you. I think the museum vs. parenting analogy from this book touches on a really key mindset issue for wildlife conservation in the Anthropocene. If your goal is to keep everything the way it was before the Industrial Revolution, you've lost before you start and it's a recipe for despair. If you open your eyes to some of the novel ecosystems, new species hybrids, and new animal/human coexistences taking shape (from peregrine falcons in Manhattan to leopards in Mumbai to caracals in Cape Town) the future looks a lot brighter.
If you're interested in similar hope-inspiring books chronicling some of the "new biodiversity" emerging in the Anthropocene, I'd recommend "Inheritors of the Earth" by Chris D. Thomas, "Wilding" by Isabella Tree, and "Islands of Abandonment" by Cal Flyn.
This was an eye opening issue. I've been pretty pessimistic about the future of biodiversity, but this book you profiled offers a new paradigm:. shifting us from museum keepers resisting change to supporters assisting natural change,. A really encouraging newsletter! I am today ordering the book where all by itself it will counterbalance a half shelf of doom and gloom texts.
Thank you very much! I'm glad this review was helpful to you. I think the museum vs. parenting analogy from this book touches on a really key mindset issue for wildlife conservation in the Anthropocene. If your goal is to keep everything the way it was before the Industrial Revolution, you've lost before you start and it's a recipe for despair. If you open your eyes to some of the novel ecosystems, new species hybrids, and new animal/human coexistences taking shape (from peregrine falcons in Manhattan to leopards in Mumbai to caracals in Cape Town) the future looks a lot brighter.
If you're interested in similar hope-inspiring books chronicling some of the "new biodiversity" emerging in the Anthropocene, I'd recommend "Inheritors of the Earth" by Chris D. Thomas, "Wilding" by Isabella Tree, and "Islands of Abandonment" by Cal Flyn.