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What effect will deforestation, particularly
in the rain forests of Brazil, have on the environment?
How is acid rain transforming ecosystems? Can we count on
science to solve the problems of overcrowding, species extinction
and global pollution? Are scientists selling us out to the
military and big business? Can we tolerate more Professor
Rushtons? Is science being used to promote racism? Is our
education system meeting the challenge? What should we be
asking of our educators?
David Suzuki tackles these issues, and more,
in this his first collection of critical essays.
Here is Suzuki at his incisive best: exploring
the limits of knowledge and the connectedness of things.
Those links that bind us all to nature.
Suzuki writes clearly and vigorously with
a keen-witted love of argument. And above all with a candor
that is both disarming and challenging.
David Suzuki is the host of CBC Television's
"The Nature of Things." He is the recent recipient
of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for Science -- past recipients
include Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley and Margaret Mead.
He is the author of Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life;
Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life and the
bestselling "Looking At" science series for children.
He lives with his wife, Tara, and their two children in
Vancouver and Toronto.
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