Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
• Published by: Basic Books June 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 073820319X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0738203195
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 14.9 ounces

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Fragile Dominion: Complexity And The Commons (Helix Books) (Hardcover) This book is written by a world renown, Princeton University biologist. I found it to be very thorough and quite inspiring. One of my favorite passages: "Thus, biodiversity is distributed, like stars and gasses and dust in the sky, into nebulae and galaxies of determinate and indeterminate structure, producing a picture whose intricacies defy simple discription." Well said! Biodiversity is truly a treasure beyond measure! Unfortunately for us, kooky consevatives, and their ilk, are attacking science on many fronts, trying, and many times succeeding, in blocking scientific progress. What a shame! Now it's biology that's "alamist." While the globe is warming, glaciers are melting to such a degree, that it's benefiting archeology; human caused extinctions of flora and fauna are reaching epochal proportions; huge area of oceans, lakes, and bays, have dead zones due to the lack of oxygenation; our environmental laws, here in the States, such as the Endangered Species Act, are under constant attack by Neanderthals in Congress; ad nauseum, the rest of us should just bury our collective heads in the proverbial sand! But when an emminet biologist tells the truth about where our planet's precious biodiversity is heading, he's "alamist." This one of the most apolitical books I've ever read! But I'm certainly glad the author didn't have his book vetted by conservative lunatics, or their corporate and government allies! Comment | | (Report this)