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The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industries and agriculture is leading to the Earth's sixth great extinction of species. Current estimates suggest that the rate of extinction is now thousands of times that counted in the fossil record before the emergence of modern man. At the same time, human societies themselves are in a cultural extinction crisis, with experts anticipating that of the world's nearly seven thousand languages as few as ten percent may survive into the next century. Melanie Challenger's extraordinary book is an exploration of how we might live to resist these extinctions and why such disappearances must be of concern to us. Adventurous, curious and passionate about her subject, Challenger takes us on a very personal journey as she tries to restore her own relationship with nature. The narrative unfolds through a series of landscapes haunted by extinction. From the ruined tin mines of Cornwall and the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia to the Inuit camps of the Arctic and the white heart of Antarctica, she probes the critical relationship between human activities and environmental collapse.This is the first book to weave together the strands of cultural, biological and industrial extinctions into a meditation on the way we live beside nature in the modern world.

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From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, On Extinction is a passionate exploration of disappearances and why they should concern us. Challenger asks questions about how we've become destructive to our environment, our emotional responses to extinctions, and how these responses might shape our future relationship with nature. She travels to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia, the melting icescape of Antarctica and the Inuit camps of the Arctic, where she traces the links between human activities and environmental collapse. On Extinction is an account of Challenger's journey that brings together ideas about cultural, biological and industrial extinction in a beautiful, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book.
Revue de presse :
'A wide-ranging and often beautiful book ... Challenger is an exquisite writer' --Observer

'Challenger's courage is exemplary ... This book is an urgent attempt to understand how we got into this mess' --Guardian

`Lovingly crafted and beautifully executed ... a wonderfully thoughtful examination of the concept and reality of extinction' --Big Issue

`Challenger combines her meditations on our fragmenting world into a finely integrated study of loss' --Nature

`A rigorous and animated book convincingly tackling a topic many of us choose to ignore'
--Stylist

'Consistently thought provoking and enjoyably ruminative'
--Independent on Sunday

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  • ÉditeurGranta Books
  • Date d'édition2011
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