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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?

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From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, nature provides 'natural services', 24/7. Recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more. It's been estimated that these are worth an annual $50 trillion to the world economy - not far short of the global GDP of $63 trillion. Yet we take most of nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless . until they suddenly switch off. This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories, containing both warnings (such as in the tale of India's vultures, killed off by drugs given to cattle, leading to an epidemic of rabies) but also the positive (how birds protect the Dutch apple harvest, or the Amazon rainforests evaporate 20 billion tonnes of water each day). Tony Juniper's book will change the whole way you think about life, the planet and the economy.

Author Biography:

Tony Juniper is Britain's best known environmental campaigner. He is a former director of Friends of the Earth, where he led the 'Big Ask' campaign which led to the 2008 Climate Change Act. He is the author of several books, including the companion volume to the BBC series Saving Planet Earth (2007 and Spix's Macaw: the race to save the world's rarest bird (2002).
Release date NZ
January 10th, 2013
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Edition
Main
Pages
336
Dimensions
129x198x21
ISBN-13
9781846685606
Product ID
20833500

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