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Title Second nature : scenes from a world remade / Nathaniel Rich.
Author Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- author.
Publication Info. New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  304.2 RIC    Check Shelves
 South Trail  304.2 RIC    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 288 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary "From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of how we live in a post-natural world"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction: Strange victory -- Crime scene. Dark waters ; The wasting ; Here come the warm jets -- Season of disbelief. Frankenstein in the lower ninth ; Chickens without their heads cut off ; Aspen saves the world -- As gods. Pigeon apocalypse. Bayou bonjour: Oil and water is the fabric of your town; Barataria; The forest machine ; The immortal jellyfish ; Green rabbit.
Summary We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's signature. The old distinctions--between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact--have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories--obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported--point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known.
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism. (OCoLC)fst00913543
Human beings -- Effect of environment on. (OCoLC)fst00962843
Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
Genre Environmental impact statements. (OCoLC)fst01941326
Environmental impact statements.
ISBN 9780374106034 hardcover : $27.00
0374106037 hardcover
Standard No. 40030507681
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