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SUMMARY:Nature and Environment Book Club: The Human Age
DESCRIPTION:Please contact facilitator Hilary Caws-Elwitt for updated 
 meeting info.\n\n \n\nThe Nature and Environment Book Club is devoted to 
 the best of nature writing and environmental reporting with discussions on 
 the second Wednesday of each month. Readers and writers interested in books 
 ranging from such classics as Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to 
 topical reportage like Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction will want 
 to join the conversation.\n\n \n\nThis month's book is The Human Age by 
 Diane Ackerman.\n\nAbout the book: \n\nHumans have "subdued 75 percent of 
 the land surface\, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels\, 
 strung lights all across the darkness." We tinker with nature at every 
 opportunity\; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and 
 animals\, many of them invasive\; and we have even altered the climate\, 
 threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive 
 capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity: we collect 
 the DNA of vanishing species in a "frozen ark\," equip orangutans with 
 iPads\, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might 
 one day outsmart us. With her distinctive gift for making scientific 
 discovery intelligible to the layperson\, Ackerman takes us on an 
 exhilarating journey through our new reality\, introducing us to many of 
 the people and ideas now creating—perhaps saving—our future and that of 
 our fellow creatures.
LOCATION:Watson Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Book Discussions, Recurring Events, Virtual
CONTACT;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/11408487
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