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Das momentan grassierende Massensterben ist nicht das erste, doch es ist einzigartig, denn der Auslöser ist ein ganz anderer als bei den vorangegangenen Big Five: Mit dem Menschen hat sich eine Spezies über alle anderen erhoben und nimmt wissentlich in Kauf, dass Abertausende Arten für immer verschwinden. Mit philosophischer Tiefe und naturwissenschaftlicher Schärfe analysiert Eileen Crist die Wurzel von Artensterben und Klimawandel: Alle As...

In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes-a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, expanding economies and international trade, and spreading infrastructures and incursions upon wildlands-she asks the key question: if we know human expansion...

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Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as "in an affectionate frame of mind", for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists and behavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen Crist's analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior, the difference "is that in the reader's mind the very image of...

Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as "in an affectionate frame of mind", for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists and behavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen Crist's analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior, the difference "is that in the reader's mind the very image of...