The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans is a book by environmental The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans (U.S.) or The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet.
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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I could not put it down. The book is well researched, well organized, practical and thorough. We've made a mess by changing the chemistry of the air, soil and water. The God Species may very well show us a path to a more sustainable way of life. The book will certainly not please all the Greens all the time, but, in my view, Lynas gets it just about right. Like Lynas, in the past I've been anti-gmo, anti-nuke and so on.
Lynas, I'm more sure than ever that we will need whatever comparatively safe energy sources are presently available to us if we are to have a chance of sustaining civilization while at the same time adapting to and mitigating the obvious and disastrous effects of climate change upon biodiversity, the weather, the oceans, and so on. Where I differ from Mr. Lynas is in his idea that economic growth on a finite planet can continue indefinitely.
He says, "I hope this book has shown convincingly that whilst ecological limits are real, economic limits are not. To approach an eager worldwide economic community of corporate mountain top removers, frackers, and drillers who rely on pulling the natural world through their operations in order to create economic growth with the news that economic growth can go on forever is unhelpful.
Jackson sensibly asserts, '" An ever expanding economy divided into a finite planet does not compute.
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It's as simple as that. Lynas does not present evidence that we can eternally expand the world economy while also properly protecting the several ecological boundaries identified and carefully studied by Mr.
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Having said that, the strength of Mr. Lynas meticulous research and well-organized presentation earns him the highest rating. Perhaps his ecologically conscious sort of enthusiasm for continuing the worldwide growth economy will at least serve to attract eternal-growth proponents and believers to a more balanced relationship with the natural world.
As concerned laymen, this takes all the racket present in environmental dialogue and respectfully outline arguments on both sides. The need to be good stewards is undeniable, but understanding where to lay one's support can be confusing. Too many people are 'one issue' environmentalists. This books inter-relates the various concerns, and draws more than a few conclusions, with the objective of getting enough consensus, in enough time, to make a difference. Get my top recommendation for an objective look that anyone can relate to. One person found this helpful. Does the environmentalist movement conflict with the anti-GMO movement?
Yes, I'm afraid it does. And Mark Lynas points out exactly why. And, this book may by the only voice for the 'other side' of the environmentalist argument. You may disagree with him, but you can't deny the cogency of Mark's arguments. They need to be made and they just may be the solutions we're looking for. Our biggest challenges seen together and with a positive outcome.
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Mark Lynas is in the forefront of modern greens. Straightforward approaches to solving the Earth's environmental problems. Mark Lynas' latest book has converted me to the power of logic in tackling humanity's greatest chaalenge for survival. Some of his conclusions are painful to digest but when compared with the consequences of ignoring reality leaves me converted to his pragmatic survival guide for humanity. This is a really great book.
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I often suffer from green angst, agonizing over every choice I make and its environmental implications. Feeling bad that I was born in the US and my lifestyle is destroying the entire earth. But the constant sadness and guilt was starting to remind me of religion and I started to notice a factual inaccuracy here and there coming from the organic food movement This book was a wonderful anticdote to all that.
Mark Lynas explains the major environmental concerns of our time, but without the moralistic overtones that are usually present. Yes we must act immediatly to avert a catastrophe, but you don't have to give up showers, light bulbs, medicine, TV in order to save the earth as we know it.
Its a very refreshing viewpoint. I hope he is right. See all 10 reviews.