Alan Weisman, author of the highly acclaimed, thought provoking book 'The World Without Us', commented on the BP Gulf Oil Spill calamity by saying "That 'horrifying' event may register as just a blip on the Earth's radar. But it still seems like a very long-term mess for the humans who have to live with it." Weisman went on to state unequivocally that "The oil sucks. You can quote me on that." [Read More in the full CSMonitor.com article entitled "Gulf oil spill: Can earth survive the disaster?"]
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Thursday
Military and Public Nuclear Waste Poisoned Legacy
The Oil Drum: Europe | EuroElections 2009 : Greens-EFA: "And have a read of the chapter 'Hot Legacy' in Alan Weisman's book 'The World without Us' - our poisoned legacy of military and public nuclear waste will make your toes curl" urges The Old Drum: Europe, part of ongoing discussions about energy and our future.
Saturday
"The World Without Us" NY Times Book Review
In the New York Times Sunday Book Review Section, Jennifer Schuessler reviews "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman and says: "In his morbidly fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller, “The World Without Us,” Weisman imagines what would happen if the earth’s most invasive species — ourselves — were suddenly and completely wiped out. Weisman knows from the work of environmental historians that humans have been shaping the natural world since long before the industrial age." [Read the full review...]
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Alan Weisman's The World Without Us Is What He Is Reading
This Is What I Am Reading blog entry at http://cartb4horse.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is-what-i-am-reading.html by Cart B4 Horse(Cart B4 Horse) and last years journal: +2007 Uncle John's 20th Anniversary {2007} Bathroom Reader, Dune: House Corrina by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, and The Cry For Justice compiled by Upton Sinclair.
Tuesday
News Items About "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman
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The World Without Us
By Julia
Earth has always adapted to shifts in climate and other crises
(asteroids, lava pools, ice ages, you name it), they argue, but the
humans who inhabit it just aren't as hardy. Author Alan Weisman argues
just that in his latest [...]
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By John HSOG
I actually found this all out while reading Alan Weisman's book, The
World Without Us, a very good book by the way. In the book, they're
claiming that as the plastic breaks down into smaller bits that
plankton will eventually start ...
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Friday
The secret library of hope - Asia Times Online - SendMeRSS
The secret library of hope Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Weisman's deservedly successful 2007 bestseller, The World Without Us, takes an extreme approach to getting it right, by showing how the planet might - in ... |
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Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" tops Amazon.ca books list The Canadian Press - TORONTO - Here are the 10 bestselling fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Dec. 18 from Amazon.ca. ... |
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