Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment

摘要

What would a one-book introduction to humanity's environmental crisis contain, one designed for readers who did not learn about ecology or environmental science in high school or take environmentally themed courses in college, and who only learn about environmental or climate change issues from the mass media's infrequent and minimal coverage? As one actively involved and educated in environmental issues for over four decades, I am frequently imagining what such a book would cover. I have read several books in this genre, such as Bill McKibben's Eaarth, David Orr's Down to the Wire, Gus Speth's The Bridge at the Edge of the World, and Mark Hertzgaard's Earth Odyssey. Each describes the problems and attempts to offer solutions in different ways. Scholar of environmental humanities Kenneth Worthy has added a new and excellent entry into this category of the one-book introduction to our ever-intensifvine environmental calamities.