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The Green Fuse: An Ecological Odyssey

English

By (author): John Harte

A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak Tibetan plateau. The result is that rare book that bridges the cultures of science and art. Lyrical, vivid portraits of natural wonders and the threats to them are combined with precise scientific accounts of natural processes and their disturbances. The Green Fuse will show nonscientists the fascination of ecological detective work and renew scientists' love for the beauty of the world under their microscopes.

Harte's stories illuminate, without sermonizing, the damage to natural systems brought about by technological hubris and calculated political ruthlessness. The green fuse symbolizes the basic unity behind natural diversity. But a fuse may also be the weak link in an overloaded system or the slow burning wick on an ecological bomb. As The Green Fuse reminds us, the energies that created human liberation from nature can also be those that lead to the human destruction of nature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jul 2022
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780520369887

About John Harte

John Harte is Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California Berkeley and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is author of Patient Earth (with Robert Socolow 1971) Consider a Spherical Cow (1975) and Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards (with Cheryl Holdren Richard Schneider and Christine Shirley California 1991). Toxics A to Z has been named Outstanding Reference Book of 1993 by the American Library Association.

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