Into the (re)wild

摘要

In his 1901 book Our National Parks, early conservationist John Muir asserted that "wildness is a necessity". Environmental journalist George Monbiot agrees, but in Feral we discover just how challenging it can be to fulfil that need.Monbiot starts by recounting his adventures during the 1980s gold rush in the Brazilian state of Roraima, among murderers, desperate miners and the Yanomami tribe's faith healers. Far from showing bravado, these tales reveal how negligence, inaction and greed have led to environmental devastation in the region