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著者:	Dunn, Rob.
题名:	A natural history of the future : [ what the laws of biology tell us about the destiny of the human species /] / ,
版次:	First edition.
出版发行:	出版地： New York : 出版社： Basic Books, 出版日期： 2021.
载体形态:	vii, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
内容提要:	"Biologist Rob Dun grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of boats. They had tried to bend nature to their own design. But as Dunn argues in A Natural History of the Future, nature has its own set of rules, and no amount of human tampering can rewrite them. We might think that we can meet the challenges of global warming by manipulating nature with our technology--and even that we can live without non-human life--but as Dunn shows, we can't. We not only rely on the natural world for food, but we need its microbes to carry out the most basic bodily functions.
主题词:	Ecological forecasting.
主题词:	Environmental policy.
主题词:	Environmental sociology.
主题词:	Human ecology.
主题词:	Nature Effect of human beings on.
索书号:	X24/9