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Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming

by Eban Goodstein

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"The central idea in Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction is simple: Unchecked, global warming threatens to destroy one of every two animals, birds, plants, reptiles, forests, fish and other creatures alive today on the earth. This looming ecological collapse will only be arrested if we can articulate and embrace what the natural world means to each of us, and then fight a series of hard political battles to preserve creation. Goodstein offers a realistic and hopeful political solution to avoid a century of mass extinction, a vision grounded in a moral view that embraces the interconnection of all life forms on the planet."--Jacket.… (more)
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This is a short, enjoyable book arguing that the diversity of species has a moral value, is endangered by global warming, and requires immediate political action in order to slow global warming within the next 10 years. ( )
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"The central idea in Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction is simple: Unchecked, global warming threatens to destroy one of every two animals, birds, plants, reptiles, forests, fish and other creatures alive today on the earth. This looming ecological collapse will only be arrested if we can articulate and embrace what the natural world means to each of us, and then fight a series of hard political battles to preserve creation. Goodstein offers a realistic and hopeful political solution to avoid a century of mass extinction, a vision grounded in a moral view that embraces the interconnection of all life forms on the planet."--Jacket.

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