Half-Earth

In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal, and Wilson proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River Basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others— Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and creates a call to arms that offers an attainable goal that we can strive for on behalf of all life.