03101cam a2200409 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000300009502000270012502000270015203500130017904000280019204100080022004200080022805000220023608200140025810000240027224501150029625000190041126400400043030000510047033600260052133700280054733800270057552016820060265000310228465000400231565000250235565000370238065000390241765000460245670000540250277601350255621595223BJBSDDR20260223130802.0ta200629s2021    nyuab         000 0 eng    a  2020026103  a9780525654810 (hardcover)  a052565481X (hardcover)  z9780525654827q(ebook)  a21595223  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  aeng  apcc14aQH 75bH673r 202100a333.75/161 aHiss, Tony, d1941-10aRescuing the planet :bprotecting half the land to heal the earth /cTony Hiss ; introduction by  E.O. Wilson.  aFirst edition. 1aNew York :bAlfred A. Knopf,c2021.  axii, 306 pages :billustrations, maps ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"From the veteran New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of The Experience of Place: an urgent, resounding call to protect half the earth's land--and thereby millions of its species--by 2050, that gives us the tools to think big about the planet and our role in conserving it. Beginning in the North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism" that is the earth: its land, its elements, its occupants, its greatest threats, and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive. He invites us to understand not only the scope and gravity of the problems we face in this challenge, but just why protecting half the land is the way to fix them, introducing us to the many institutions and organizations already involved in the fight, such as the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and the global animal tracking project ICARUS. Throughout these pages, we encounter engineers, geologists, biologists, botanists, oceanographers, ecologists, and other "Half Earthers" like Hiss, as he gleans their insights, weaving together a vast network of experts in what amounts to an incredible, and incredibly illuminating, work of synthesis: what E. O. Wilson, in his introduction, calls "as clear a picture of humanity's impact on earth's natural environment as ever written." Tender, impassioned, curious, and above all else inspiring, 50 by '50 is a work that promises to make all of us better citizens of the earth"--cProvided by publisher. 0aBiodiversity conservation. 4aConservación de la biodiversidad  0aNature conservation. 4aConservación de la naturaleza  0aConservation of natural resources. 4aConservación de los recursos naturales 1 aWilson, Edward O.q(Edward Osborne),  d1929-202108iOnline version:aHiss, Tony, 1941-tThe fifty percent solutiondNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.z9780525654827w(DLC) 2020026104