Ill Nature
Subtitle: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Edition: First edition edition
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781585741878
Subjects: Human ecology; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Nature; Environmental degradation; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Essays; Reference; Effect of human beings on; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country.".

"Joy Williams sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects.

Among Ill Nature's nineteen essays are: "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp" on the way we love what we love to death; "The Killing Game," her famous anti-hunting essay that caused a furor when it first appeared in Esquire; "Safariland," on the state of wildlife in Africa; "The Animal People," tracking the movements of the animal rights movement; "The Case against Babies," on the blithe determination of American women to continue to populate the Earth.".

"Williams refuses to compromise as the lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something ... now."--BOOK JACKET.