THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES: A CHRONICLE OF CONCERN AND HOPE
Book ID/图书代码： 03371015B82201
English Summary/英文概要： These distinctive essays take us traveling with archaeologist and environmental activist Courtney White as he travels the country. THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES is not a policy book. Here’s a quick take on it:
Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon – soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas – at an unsustainable rate. We’ve burned up half the planet’s known reserves of oil – one trillion barrels – in less than a century. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow.
Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment The Age of Consequences—a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions– or inaction – have begun to raise unavoidable and difficult questions. How should we respond? What are effective (and realistic) solutions?
In exploring these questions, White draws on his formidable experience as an environmentalist and activist as well as his experience as a father to two children living through this vital moment in time. As a result, The Age of Consequences is a book of ideas and action, but it is also a chronicle of personal experience. Readers follow White as he travels the country --- from Kansas to Los Angeles, New York City, Italy, France, Yellowstone, and New England. Along the way he recounts stories of Amish farmers in Ohio, cattle ranchers in the Southwest, creek restorationists in New Mexico, local food entrepreneurs in Arizona, and carbon pioneers in Australia. Their stories inform and entertain, but they also reveal encouraging and hopeful answers to anguished questions about our collective future, including issues of sustainability, climate change mitigation, resilience, land health, collaborative conservation, ecological restoration, and regenerative agriculture.
The Age of Consequences is an engaging and informative look at our current environmental predicament, as well as an important contribution to the growing body of environmental literature by writers such as Wallace Stegner, Wendell Berry, Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben and E.O. Wilson, and Michael Pollan.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书中这些独特的文章带领读者与考古学家、环保活动家Courtney White一起他走遍全国。《后果年代》不是一本政策性图书。
我们的星球正在接近一个重要的环境转折点。在全球范围内，我们正在以一个不可持续的速度不断地消耗土地、木材、煤炭、石油和天然气。不到一个世纪，我们已经烧掉了半个地球的已探明的石油储量——一万亿桶。随着这些能源消耗殆尽，社会也会面临严重的问题。
前者考古学家和Sierra俱乐部活动家Courtney White称这个时刻为“后果年代”——在这个年代，我们对环境的各种作为和不作为所导致的令人担忧的后果开始引发各种不可避免的难题。我们应该如何应对呢？什么是有效的（与现实的）解决方案呢？
在探讨这些问题时，White借鉴了他作为环保主义者和社会活动家以及两个孩子的父亲的丰富经验，探讨应该如何度过这个重要的时刻。这样一来，本书既是一部包含各种想法和行动的作品，也是个人经验的记录。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Courtney White，前考古学家、环保活动家，非盈利机构Quivira联盟的共同创始人，该联盟旨在为牧场主、自然资源保护者、公共土地管理者、科学家和其他致力于改善土地质量的人搭建沟通的桥梁。如今，他的环境保护工作重点是建设经济环保的工作环境，特别强调节能放牧和新的土改运动。著有《美国西部新兴牧场的崛起（the Rise of a New Ranch in the American West）》《草地、土壤、希望：碳排放国家之行（Grass, Soil, Hope: a Journey through Carbon Country）》。目前居住在新墨西哥圣达菲。
A former archaeologist and environmental activist, Courtney White is the co-found the Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to building bridges between ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists and others around practices that improve land health. Today, his conservation work focuses on building economic and ecological resilience on working landscapes, with a special emphasis on carbon ranching and the new agrarian movement. He is the author of Revolution on the Range: the Rise of a New Ranch in the American West and Grass, Soil, Hope: a Journey through Carbon Country. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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