Half-Earth
Our Planet's Fight for Life

Species are going extinct about 1000 times as fast as the “normal” rate of extinction. The solution, argues the author, is to give over half of the earth to the wild animals. I am a nonspecialist, and in addition to Wilson’s book and miscellaneous other articles, I’ve already read Elizabeth Kolbert’......more

A bold proposition whose time has come. Is a critical mass of our weedy, materialistic species up to it? "A great majority of people have little awareness of the countless species of the great biosphere that still envelops our planet. ... The millions of species that support the living world and ulti......more

“…[O]nly by committing half of the planet’s surface to nature can we hope to save the immensity of life-forms that compose it.” In Half-Earth, American biologist and Pulitzer prize winner E.O. Wilson gives a well-researched, well-documented, eloquent, but above all, impassioned plea on behalf of our......more

Wilson argues that humanity's only chance for survival as a species is to cooperate with other life forms that make up the biodiversity of the earth. At the rate we're going, our destruction of the environment, in terms of global-warming, is having a disastrous effect on the millions of other life f......more

E.O. Wilson is a great scientist and writer but this is not a very good book. He doesn't even get to his proposal (if you can call it that) for setting aside wildlife areas until 3/4 of the way through the book and it's so vague, it's hard to call it a plan, more of a plea. It's important stuff, no......more