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“An audacious idea that might jump-start a lagging conversation about a burning issue…[I]f Half-Earth takes us any closer to sparking greater effort, it will cement Wilson’s already remarkable legacy.”
- Mike Weilbacher, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Wilson’s passion for the planet shines through on these pages. He looks at life in its broadest, grandest sweep…Wilson is a thinker in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt.”
- Matthew Price, The National

“Few experts have offered such an exuberant and optimistic plan for dealing with [climate change] as biologist Edward O. Wilson…The strength of his argument lies in his ability to elegantly unveil the bigger picture, and to define and examine what in our essential human nature has led us to this point…[W]e need Wilson’s reminder that we are not demigods, but are instead, as he puts it, ‘a biological species tied to this particular biological world.’”
- Jessi Phillips, Sierra

“As an outline of our terrible ecological plight, it does a first-class job.”
- Robin McKie, Guardian

Chapter Page
Prologue 1
Part I The Problem
1. The World Ends, Twice 7
2. Humanity Needs a Biosphere 11
3. How Much Biodiversity Survives Today? 19
4. An Elegy for the Rhinos 29
5. Apocalypses Now 35
6. Are We As Gods? 47
7. Why Extinction is Accelerating 53
8. The Impact of Climate Change: Land, Sea, and Air 65
9. The Most Dangerous Worldview 71
Part II The Real Living World
10. Conservation Science 83
11. The Lord God Species 95
12. The Unknown Webs of Life 101
13. The Wholly Different Aqueous World 113
14. The Invisible Empire 121
15. The Best Places in the Biosphere 133
16. History Redefined 155
Part III The Solution
17. The Awakening 169
18. Restoration 175
19. Half-Earth: How to Save the Biosphere 185
20. Threading the Bottleneck 189
21. What Must Be Done 209
Sources and Further Reading 213
Glossary 227
Appendix 2:9 Illustration Credits 233
Acknowledgments 237
Index 239

"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." -Jedediah Purdy, New Republic

In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize?winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed―such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others―Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

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