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British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters. Professioneller Kundenservice Hilfe und Expertise. In The God SpeciesMark Lynas shows The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. how we must use our technological mastery over nature to protect the planet from ourselves. Building on recent scientific discoveries, Mark Lynas explains that there are nine 'planetary boundaries' that humanity must not cross if the Earth is to continue The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. support life and our civilisation. Climate change is one, but others — like ocean acidification, nitrogen use and biodiversity loss — are less well- known, though equally crucial. These boundaries all interact, and we can only hope to manage the planet successfully if we understand how they affect one another. But this is no depressing lamentation of eco-doom. Instead, Lynas presents a radical manifesto that calls for the increased use of controversial but environmentally-friendly technologies, such as genetic engineering and nuclear power, as part of a global effort to protect and nurture the biosphere. Ripping up years of 'green' orthodoxy, he reveals how the prescriptions of the current environmental movement are likely to hinder as much as help our vitally-needed effort to use science and technology to play God and save the The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. Mark Lynas is an activist, journalist and traveller. He was editor of the website www. He is the author of High Tide and Six Degrees. Will outrage many readers" — Independent "Wonderfully sane and cogent" — Guardian "Mark Lynas is one of a growing band of influential figures, along with James Lovelock, Stewart Brand and George Monbiot, who now argue that the approach of most Greens to climate change needs to change [ Deutsch English. Prothero Michael J. Benton Richard Fortey View All. British Wildlife. Weiter zu British Wildlife. Conservation Land Management. Weiter zu Conservation Land Management. Publisher: Fourth Estate. Click to have a closer look. Select version. About this book Customer reviews Biography Related titles. Images Additional images. About this book In The God SpeciesMark Lynas shows us how we must use our technological mastery over nature to protect the planet from ourselves. Customer Reviews Review this book. By: Mark Lynas Author. Media reviews. Current promotions. Bestsellers in Sustainable Development: General. Green and Prosperous Land. More Info. A New Garden Ethic. Nature's Ghosts. Childhood and Nature. Urban Tree Management. Our Biosphere. Other titles from Fourth Estate. Bird Photographer of the Year The Ravenmaster. Our Final Warning. The End of the End of the Earth. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke. The Sea Inside. Browse titles from Fourth Estate. Register No. Willkommen bei. Bestellen Sie jetzt in Euro auf nhbs. Continue to browse in english. The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet | NHBS Buchempfehlungen A cross our planet, a range of ancient habitats provide eerie testimonies to the lives of creatures that once ruled the land. In Brazil, more than tree species produce giant fruit that evolved to be dispersed by elephant-sized creatures called gomphotheres, while in Madagascar many plants grow thin zigzag branches to protect themselves from 10ft-high elephant birds, which used to populate the island. These animals, like the mammoth and mastodon, are now extinct — their disappearances having followed the relentless conquest of the globe by Homo sapiens. Few doubt there is a link. Environmentalist Mark Lynas is certainly convinced that humans slaughtered these huge animals, creatures whose only living legacy today are those specialised fruits and protective thorny bushes that still await their attention. And with no living animals to disperse their seeds properly, these trees and plants are now themselves endangered. Humans have a lot to answer for, in short. We have wiped out countless species and are now heating the planet, poisoning the oceans, and transforming the atmosphere. As Lynas states: "Nature no longer runs the Earth. We do. And you can see his point. Homo sapiens have acquired God-like powers The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. transform the world and destroy life. Hence the title of Lynas's book, in which he outlines the measures he believes that humans — as responsible, benign deities — should now adopt to save the planet. Consider nuclear power. An anathema to greenies but which turns out to be a particular favourite of Lynas: an energy source that should be seen as "one of the strongest weapons in our armoury against global warming". Genetically engineered crops also get the thumbs up. Only they can provide the food for the billions of future inhabitants that will populate our planet, Lynas claims. As for those midnight raids he carried out against plant trials, they occurred because "I was caught up more in an outbreak of mass hysteria than anything resembling a rational response to a new technology". As Damascene conversions go, this is a belter. With luck, it might even start a trend — for as Lynas now admits, it is now "time for a change of tack by the Green movement, for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the environment". Amen, is all I can add. The core of The God Species relies heavily on the work of the "planetary boundaries" group, a collection of scientists who recently produced strict recommendations about levels of disturbance beyond which humanity should not push the planet. These The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. specific limits on carbon dioxide emissions, farming land use, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, and ocean acidification. Stick to these and earthly life should remain tolerable, Lynas states. Nor is there a need for an economic revolution to achieve these goals. Good old-fashioned capitalism is quite sufficient. As Lynas says: "A successful environmental movement must work with people's aspirations for prosperity and comfort, not try to suppress these impulses. He didn't. He invented the secondary condenser, which transformed the efficiency of existing steam engines. And he did it ina date carved in stone on Glasgow Green where Watt first conceived his great idea. Similarly, an article I wrote is attributed to the wrong newspaper, while in the same chapter it is "revealed" that the Iberian lynx is hovering on the edge of extinction. In fact, its population numbers have trebled in the past few years, and continue to rise, thanks to a remarkable rescue programme that has saved the animal. I could go on. Suffice to say that these mistakes, while individually trivial, The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. to undermine the reader's faith that Lynas fully understands his brief. The problem is haste, I suspect. Certainly, The God Species comes over as a hurriedly written book. On the plus side, this brings a sense of urgency to its pages — time is running out for our world, as Lynas makes clear — but on the other, its mistakes irritate. Overall, Lynas is to be commended for producing a work that challenges so many green movement taboos and The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. recognising the importance of hard science — such as nuclear power and genetic engineering — and sound economics as potential saviours of the planet. This is an insightful, honest book. I just wish Lynas had taken a little more care in preparing it. Environment Climate change Wildlife Energy Pollution. The Observer Science and nature books. Factual errors detract from Mark Lynas's otherwise smart proposal on how to save the planet. The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet. plant on the cracked bed of China's Poyang lake. Robin McKie.