{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-world-nature-as-it-was-as-it-is-as-it-could-be","title":"The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be","description":"An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we’ve forgotten\n\nMany people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making—and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a diminished world of our own making.\n\nIn The Once and Future World, MacKinnon invites us to remember nature as it was, to reconnect to nature in a meaningful way, and to remake a wilder world everywhere. He goes looking for landscapes untouched by human hands. He revisits a globe exuberant with life, where lions roam North America and ten times more whales swim in the sea. He shows us that the vestiges of lost nature surround us every day: buy an avocado at the grocery store and you have a seed designed to pass through the digestive tracts of huge animals that have been driven extinct.\n\nThe Once and Future World is a call for an “age of rewilding,” from planting milkweed for butterflies in our own backyards to restoring animal migration routes that span entire continents. We choose the natural world that we live in—a choice that also decides the kind of people we are.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 054410305X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.054410305X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:MacKinnon, J. B.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43589757993021,"sku":"BVV.054410305X.A","price":74.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/054410305X-0.jpg?v=1788729342","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-once-and-future-world-nature-as-it-was-as-it-is-as-it-could-be","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}