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Wild at Heart: America's Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption
Alice Outwater
3.58 AVERAGE
6 reviews for:
Wild at Heart: America's Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption
Alice Outwater
3.58 AVERAGE
A very good and detailed story on how we have used nature through recent history. The Industrial Age to now to be exact. Well worth a read.
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I enjoyed a lot of this, there was so much information and history that I was unaware of. I wanted it to say something about it, but it was more of a string of facts with a few anecdotes thrown in.
In a nutshell: a lot of historical details about the many eras of national mindsets/economies involving nature. Not as much of an ideological deep dive as I was hoping, but informative and interesting.
DNF - Couldn't make it through the intro.
Summary - Delightful, enlightened pagans thought trees had souls and then scary, evil, Christians came along and ruined the whole earth. The end.
Summary - Delightful, enlightened pagans thought trees had souls and then scary, evil, Christians came along and ruined the whole earth. The end.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I thoroughly enjoyed this in-depth piece on exploitation and our environmental triumphs but as others have alluded to it tends to give the impression that the fight is over. Yes, we have made a lot of progress but we still have an awful long way to go until we treat animals as our equals. There is a lot of solid information here, and it certainly isn't as dry as it could've been; being a law graduate I found the discussion of laws and regulations interesting and Outwater highlights the slow evolution of the law to protect the environment. Of course, you can't consider animals and habitats in isolation as climate change and a multitude of other issues naturally come to the fore and are connected to ecology.
Wild at Heart is well worth your time if you're interested in ecology, our planet, animals and environmental issues, and I especially recommend to animal activists.
Many thanks to St Martin's Press for an ARC.
Wild at Heart is well worth your time if you're interested in ecology, our planet, animals and environmental issues, and I especially recommend to animal activists.
Many thanks to St Martin's Press for an ARC.