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Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain | John Robb, Dale Vince

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📖 Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain (Revised and Updated) by Dale Vince

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A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations | Clive Ponting

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Robotswithpersonality

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life | George Monbiot

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I don't think the book needed a different title, but it might have needed a different editor. There is a significant portion of the book, say from 75 pages in to the last 20 pages, where the chapters focus directly on issues related to rewilding, for the most part in a UK context, though international concerns and stats are introduced as supplementary examples. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The beginning and end of the book, along with moments in the more focused chapters are a mix of exquisite descriptions of local flora and fauna, the sights and weather, and the personal asides of an individual with a strong appreciation for wildness and a passionate interest in evidence-based speculation about the previous/pre-history animals that inhabited local ecosystems. 2d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? There's about a third of a skeleton that might have been a compelling memoir of Monbiot's travels and musings, his wilder days and encounters with the wild.

The vast majority is similar to what I was looking for when I picked up the book, with one subjective flaw: perhaps understandably Monbiot spends a lengthy amount of time detailing the madness that is current policy (circa 2013) surrounding conservation in the UK, the various ecosystems 2d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I really prefer the sections where he talks to people about their reasoning, where others are coming from and how changes might be made without undue controversy, with partnership of local residents/industry (small farms NOT tax shelters, wildlife tourism NOT maintaining the overpopulation of select species for hunting 😑). Where he outlines what could be done as first steps.
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Robotswithpersonality 5/? I'm very glad there's a chapter that underlines how not to rewild: the human tragedies that have unexpectedly resulted in ecosystem recovery, the forcible removal of people for green vanity projects and hunting reserves.

I think it's important that Monbiot clearly indicates where local government is befuddled with bad science and lobbying groups with other priorities are calling the shots, that he describes why changes in law and policy 2d

Robotswithpersonality 6/? need to be part of this movement, so grassroots efforts are not bumping heads with the rule makers.

I don't think I can see quite as far ahead as he has, I don't need to consider how much wilder an area can get than just letting things grow back and reintroducing some recently absented species, leaving ecosystems alone to adjust to climate change, without human management/interference.
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Robotswithpersonality 7/7 I also think if this book focused clearly on a summary of what hasn't worked/made things worse, and what the best options are going forward, it could be half the length and a resource I'd more readily recommend. 🤷🏼‍♂️

⚠️animal death, mention of WW2 violence, genocides, the Holocaust 2d

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Jen2

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture | Wendell Berry

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Very informative

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Robotswithpersonality

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life | George Monbiot

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Kboltz

Playground | Richard Powers

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This book is great! The world is a playground and we are all playing. The ocean, friendship, oceanography, AI…this book is so true and what a great cast of characters. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. I‘m so pleased I finally loved a Pulitzer Prize winning book.😏😆 Social media and the internet and all that has changed for not only us but for the entire living world out there.

ImperfectCJ He actually won it for The Overstory, but if you're usually not a fan of authors who've won a Pulitzer, it's still notable. (I enjoyed The Overstory more than this one, although I liked this one a lot...mostly.) 2w

Kboltz @ImperfectCJ Ok so the Overstory won but hey I read a book from a Pulitzer Prize winner! Thanks for clearing that up for me! If I was patient enough to look up past Pulitzer winners I would have saw that!😂😂😂😂. I have that book and was told to read it..on my TBR 2w

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OneCent76

Playground | Richard Powers

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This book was read for my book club. It's a decent book but I didn't love it. It's a lot of short stories, in my opinion. They were good but I'm not sure how they all connected except for the ocean.

Leniverse Yeah, I wasn't fond of that one. I could see how it was all connected, but I didn't like it 😒 2w

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Bookwormjillk

The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial | David Lipsky

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This book was fascinating. The author thoroughly explained the history of climate science and what goes into the campaigns to discredit it. Everyone should read this

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Eva_B

Juice | Tim Winton

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Wow! This book was amazing! Had me 100% hooked. I love Tim Winton but I was reluctant to read this one because I thought it might be too depressing. I‘m sooo glad I did read it! Set in a futuristic Australia where climate change has wreaked havoc and humanity is adapting in order to survive. Gritty and frightening the main character tells his life story to a suspicious stranger in order to survive. Well worth reading.

BarbaraBB Great review! 1mo

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