Earth Time: Essays

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Summary: Interesting Book On An Important Topic!
Review: David Suzuki is a well-known Canadian intellectual who is playing a vital role in the ongoing debate regarding the natural environment and the future of the human (as well as all the other) species. Educated as a natural scientist, he is a former educator now working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is also the author of such books as "God's Final Offer" (see my review). He is considered, both within Canada and without, to be one of the most credible and reputable critics of corporate and government policies concerning the natural environment. In this series of essays entitled "Earth Time: Essays" he takes thoughtful aim at the myriad of problems associated with the changes in the natural environment as we now enter the new millennium.

These essays cover such provocative issues as corporate globalization and its manifest effects on the environment as well as the associated changes to the climate, the deadening effect of political shortsightedness, the baleful legacy being created by both individual and organized greed, and the curiously willful blindness of those who should know better but choose to cast a blind eye to all that is happening around them. Yet this is not a simple desultory philippic on the evils of humankind; instead it is also a stirring call to arms for those of us who are looking for practical methods and devices to use to stem the negative tide swirling around us.

Suzuki gives us hope by showing us the sources for strength and hope, ranging from nature itself to ingenuous local political initiatives as well as educating our children beyond the consumption modality our generations seem so fatefully caught within. I recommend this book along with the previously mentioned title, both of which will measurably enhance any reader's grasp on the total range of effects of the current environmental crisis. I highly recommend it. Enjoy!

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Summary: A Great Collection of Essays and Articles
Review: Suzuki is an extremely profound and inspirational environmentalist. His perspective is essential. Trained as a geneticist, his approach is well-grounded in facts, but he writes with the ease and fluidity of a novelist. An important, useful and engaging book. You can never go wrong with Suzuki. Check out "From Naked Ape to Superspecies" and "The Sacred Balance" - two other good books by this gifted writer.