He writes that, as a scientist, he felt like he was writing obituaries for the species he studied. To be sure, Sala delights in the unique and sometimes bizarre strategies for survival that species employ and how they fit together.
“Life on Earth and its mind-blowing, intertwining complexity is the greatest miracle humanity has known,” he writes. It seems to be that appreciation that compelled Sala to write the book, not just as a warning for the challenges we face as we continue to alter nature, but as a beacon of hope: that solutions to these problems exist. “We need to remind folks about what’s wrong, but we also need to show how to fix it,” Sala said. Read Further
