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9781595340085

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"""A supremely important book about some of the leaders in the battle to maintain our life support systems. Read it and be inspired and thankful."" -- Paul R. Ehrlich ""Contains a number of home truths, calmly and moderately enunciated, that point the way toward a world more sturdy and robust than the troubled one we now inhabit. It is a kind of primer for twenty-first-century citizenship, and well worth the reading."" -- Bill McKibben"

A supremely important book about some of the leaders in the battle to maintain our life support systems. Read it and be inspired and thankful. -- Paul R. Ehrlich Contains a number of home truths, calmly and moderately enunciated, that point the way toward a world more sturdy and robust than the troubled one we now inhabit. It is a kind of primer for twenty-first-century citizenship, and well worth the reading. -- Bill McKibben

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is a professor of biology emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he was the founding director of the undergraduate environmental science degree program. He initially studied insect and then plant development, but his scholarly interests shifted to the interface between biology and economics. He coauthored, with economist John M. Gowdy, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio.

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