Here on Earth
Subtitle: a new beginning
By: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781846143960
Subjects: Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Nature; Effect of human beings on; Sustainable living; Gaia hypothesis; Origin; Planets; Mensch; Erde; Entstehung; Evolution (biologi)
Description: Dual biography of planet Earth and the human species.
Table of contents: title: Evolution's motive force; title: Of genes, mnemes and destruction; title: Evolution's legacy; title: A fresh look at earth; title: The commonwealth of virtue; title: Man the disrupter; title: New worlds; title: Biophilia; title: Superorganisms; title: Superorganismic glue; title: Ascent of the ultimate superorganism; title: War against nature; title: Gaia-killers; title: The eleventh hour?; title: Undoing the work of ages; title: The stars of heaven; title: Discounting the future; title: Greed and the market; title: Of war and inequality; title: A new tool kit; title: Governance; title: Restoring the life-force; title: What lies on the other side?