![]() ![]() From Costa Rican tropical forests to the thoroughly transformed British landscape, nature is coping surprisingly well in the human epoch.Ĭhris Thomas takes us on a gripping round-the-world journey to meet the enterprising creatures that are thriving in the Anthropocene, from Yorks ochre-coloured comma butterfly to hybrid bison in North America, scarlet-beaked pukekos in New Zealand, and Asian palms forming thickets in the European Alps. Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in most parts of the world and increasing the rate at which new species are formed, perhaps to the highest level in Earths history. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back. In Inheritors of the Earth, renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? ![]() It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. ![]()
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