⚫㊐✨Heather Mc Erlean❦㈦㊏
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Jeffrey McKinnon:
I will definitely be getting your book. I have read some Ed Yong and know of Aimee Nezhukumatathil. I looked up each and their books. Thank you for the answers. I cannot wait to read your book. If you had to pick from all other books, which one or more would you say are the best to start with in order to get a deeper understanding of the problems we face protecting this earth?
Jeffrey McKinnon
Heather: thank you for your interest in my book—I hope you enjoy it! Yours is a difficult question and it arrived just as I was heading to my daughter’s wedding (which was wonderful), so I have been especially slow to answer. The challenge for me with this question is that I mainly learn about environmental issues from scientific papers or accounts of new research in newspapers and magazines (which often lead me back to the original scientific papers). I tend to read science and natural history books that are historical, biographical, explain an area of research at the edge of my expertise, or are noteworthy for their style or quality of writing.
One place that provides great coverage of environmental topics is the Guardian. I especially like that they write a lot about “the age of extinction” in which we now find ourselves, but without encouraging despair. I would suggest one book that I thought provided a really useful perspective, “The Once and Future World,” by J.B. MacKinnon (no relation, though he is also from British Columbia). Much of it is about shifting baselines and how we start to forget what we have lost as the generations go by—this seems to me critical. Thanks again for your question.
One place that provides great coverage of environmental topics is the Guardian. I especially like that they write a lot about “the age of extinction” in which we now find ourselves, but without encouraging despair. I would suggest one book that I thought provided a really useful perspective, “The Once and Future World,” by J.B. MacKinnon (no relation, though he is also from British Columbia). Much of it is about shifting baselines and how we start to forget what we have lost as the generations go by—this seems to me critical. Thanks again for your question.
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⚫㊐✨Heather Mc Erlean❦㈦㊏
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Jeffrey McKinnon:
Thank you for writing this book. Though I didn't win the free copy, I would like to thank you for giving people a chance to win it. My questions are: 1. What is your favorite animal in the water? 2. Do you have plans to write any other books on this same subject? What inspired you to write this book?
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