This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural
sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically
important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of
lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical
history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of
science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology,
anthropology, demographics, and futurism.
The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological-and from an
insular perspective, successful-struggle to exist has come at the price
of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and
far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at
crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years,
implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly
ruinous to biological baselines. Those metrics are examined from
numerous multidisciplinary approaches in this thoroughly original work,
which aids readers, particularly natural history students, who aspire to
grasp the far-reaching dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects
every facet of human experience, past, present and future, and the rest
of planetary sentience.
With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute
of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie, President of the
non-profit, Population Communication.
