Conservation Philosophy Reading Group

Jan 8, 2024 MInistry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Guardian Review

Bill Gates review

Author speaking to Bioneers (20min)
(if this were a campaign speech,
I'd drop everything and join the party!)

NPR: The carbon coin: A novel idea

Global Carbon Reward (Delton Chen)

"Humans are burning about 40 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion tons) of fossil carbon per year. Scientists have calculated that we can burn about 500 more gigatons of fossil carbon before we push the average global temperature over 2 degrees Celsius higher than it was when the industrial revolution began; this is as high as we can push it, they calculate, before really dangerous effects will follow for most of Earth’s bioregions, meaning also food production for people." -- Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future: A Novel (p. 29). Kindle Edition.

Oct 2, 2023 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Description

July 31, 2023 - Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, by Bethany Brookshire

Washington Post Review

June 26, 2023 Stolen, by Ann-Helaen Laestadius

Review in The Guardian

May 29, 2023 Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals, by Jack Ashby.

review

April 24, 2023 - First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human, by Jeremy DeSilva

Review in NYTimes

March 27, 2023 - Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, by Frans de Waal

NY Times Review

Washington Post Review

For two additional short Reviews
go here and scroll down

February 27, 2023 : Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet, by John Reid and Thomas Lovejoy.

short review

Washington Post Review

Review @ undark.org

January 30, 2023: The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World, by Oliver Milman

You've heard the rumors.

This long overdue book provides the proof.

Jan 2, 2023 - A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species, by Rob Dunn

Link to "Nat Talk" by same title on You Tube

November 28, 2022 - The Nature of Oaks, by Doug Tallamy

This is a short one. Don't waste time on reviews.

Oaks serve as hosts to more species of insect than any other tree. Many species of birds depend on insect larvae to feed their nestlings. Lawns are bad for ecology. Plant some oaks in your yard.Maybe it's not too late.

November 7, 2022 - Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West, by John Taliaferro.

Washing Post Review

National Parks Traveller