Our Plundered Planet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-02

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Our Plundered Planet is a book published in 1948 that was written by Fairfield Osborn about environmental destruction by humankind. With a focus on soil, the book is a critique of humankind's poor stewardship of Earth. It typifies the earliest apocalyptic environmental literature, in which human beings are seen as destroyers of the natural world.Our Plundered Planet, along with William Vogt’s Road to Survival, also published in 1948, launched a Malthusian revival in the post War era, and would inspire Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb among many others.