Fred Pearce
English environment and science writer; a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360 and author of When the Rivers Run Dry (2006), The Land Grabbers (2012) and The New Wild (2015).
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Liked The Population Bomb
modern environmental thinking—for me—probably starts with, yes, Rachel Carson, but also Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, which I remember being very stimulated by in the late 1960s, early 1970s.
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Liked Adventures in the Anthropocene: Journeys to the Heart of the Planet we Made
I like Adventures in the Anthropocene because it is just that. She has a series of chapters on grasslands, mountains, oceans, coastlines, climate—the standard repertoire of environmental issues on a global scale
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Recommends Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
It's been a hugely influential idea, certainly for me, but I think also more widely for the environmental science movement.
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Loved Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered
Yes, Small is Beautiful was important for me as a lefty-political, as you'd say, in the early 1970s at university. It was one of the first books to suggest to me that there was another way.
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Mixed on Road to Survival
So we need the pessimists, although some of them—Vogt in particular—I think of as a malign influence, because of the political thinking that went behind what he was saying.
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Loved Hiroshima
Well, I'm a journalist and for me this is one of the great works of journalism. I'm not alone in saying this; many others have called it the best piece of journalism in the twentieth century.
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Blog Fred Pearce at Yale Environment 360 Reported pieces on water, land and climate, about monthly
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