Shattered Earth: : Approaching Extinction - Softcover

Prattis, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1988058503 ISBN 13: 9781988058504

Verlag: Manor House Publishing Inc., 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Author Dr. Ian Prattis opens Shattered Earth in the not too distant future with a futuristic analysis of Climate Change and "the inevitable fate provided by the suicide pact engineered by corrupt corporations for most of humanity."

From there, the award-winning writer examines destructive environmental trends and practices and explores ways to protect and preserve planet Earth.

Dr. Prattis employs a skillful blending of fiction, non-fiction and biographical narratives to effectively convey his message in a thought-provoking, reader-engaging manner.

Shattered Earth provides both a big-picture look at our planet's environment in crisis along with a more individualistic-personal perspective, evident in his own experiences shared throughout this book.

This is also particularly evident in my own favorite section of Shattered Earth: The enthralling Part Three - Hello Darkness, a superbly written collection of fictional short stories, exploring everything from a broken lover's loss of his self-created nurturing relationship-environment and subsequent encounter with a violent ocean environment; to a loner's strong desire to save his natural environment from being destroyed by big developer bulldozers; to an act of arson; to an old man braving an incredibly harsh environment to save the life of a child - small-picture stories of individuals engaged in environmental interaction.

Shattered Earth is a joy to read with an underlying message that we need to treat ourselves, our neighbours and our planet with much more care and concern - if you weren't an environmentalist on starting this book, you will be by the time you finish reading it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Ian Prattis, Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa, is the critically acclaimed award-winning author of 18 important and influential titles, including breakthrough book Failsafe; Saving the Earth from Ourselves with Foreword by Dr. David Suzuki, who noted: "Ian Prattis offers a way to a perceptual transformation that is absolutely critical if we to find a sustainable future." Of his newly released Past, Present, Future, Dr. Prattis notes he wrote the compelling short stories on humanity's self-destructive leanings "because I had to - I had a sense of reciprocity about what I felt was necessary to heal... the chapters become as seeds in the min d of the reader... there is a strong emphasis on Indigenous wisdom... displaying how easy it is to fall into destruction."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manor House Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1988058503
• ISBN 13: 9781988058504
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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