Despite the offer of joy proposed in the subtitle, this is a deeply troubling book by one of Britain’s foremost journalists on the politics of nature. Michael McCarthy was the Independent’s environmental editor for 15 years, and his new work is really a summation of a career spent pondering the impacts of humankind on the world’s ecosystems.
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Mark Cocker is a writer and naturalist. His books include Crow Country and Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet.
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