How can we save our planet?

Rob Ixer looks at two sobering examinations of how mankind has damaged nature, and what we might do to repair it

Nature’s Ghosts  The world we lost and how to bring it back again Sophie Yeo HarperNorth 2024 Hb, 320pp, £22, ISBN 9780008474126 The Story of Nature  A human history Jeremy Mynott Yale University Press 2024 Hb, 376pp, £25, ISBN 9780300245653 Standing on the (probable) brink of the Earth’s sixth major extinction event, (the last was 65 million years ago by the dinosaur destroying Chicxulub meteor) and irreversible climate change, these two books discuss the same existential questions: what have we done and what should we now do, with “the wild”/“nature”/the environment and how can/should we ameliorate the past and future damage? Both books are easy but uncomfortable reads. Sophie Yeo’s unillustrated book is the lesser; it is a very personalised gravid and grave account researched whilst pregnant and written by…

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