A Passion for This Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment

David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring collection. These journalists, scientists, writers and environmentalists have taken their enthusiasm for Suzuki's philosophy and funneled it into their own personal recollections, manifestos, and essays: Rick Bass describes his love for the Yaak...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553653750
• ISBN13: 9781553653752
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Insightful inspiring informative genius in action

This book gathers many very important, inspiring and informative contemplations from activists in various situations and locations, their reflections on their changing levels of knowledge and dedication to the cause and their thoughts on the impact of David Suzuki's career (essentially a gathering of personal recapitulations, definitely not a detailed summary of David Suzuki's career by any means). There a very good diversity of people and I really enjoyed this book. I highly recommend it. You'll see yourself here and there and understand how commitment takes hold. This would be a great gift for people of any age (above 8?), as we all have our perspectives, questions, capacities and mindsets. ALL ACTIVISTS NEED TO READ THIS BOOK, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE TRYING TO FIND OR CREATE MORE ACTIVISTS AT ANY LEVEL. This book doesn't twist any arms through any outright pressure, it does so by giving you the inside scoop, the real story of critical realizations, which are always personally accomplished. I grew up watching Nature Of Things and have followed David Suzuki's books, public speaking and various specials for quite a while, through the ups and downs. Living in Alberta lets me see both the upside and ugly side of the battle going on for a clean, sustainable and healthy future on Earth. While we try to shift ourselves off strict dependency on the oil money and the oil economy mechanisms, we most definitely need to avoid nuclear power and are fortunate that the sustainable energy support and energy efficiency awareness in Alberta is growing very rapidly. Green jobs are real and sustainable jobs! But we still have a hard fight to get things done at an adequate pace without backsliding or getting unfairly speed-bumped on many fronts, given the resistance from governments, oil money influencing public policy, and underhanded actions in the field. I have been consistently educating myself on the nature of this battle and related issues for decades and continue to do so. I started to join the activist effort directly about two years ago and am discovering that to do so requires more than a solid grounding in the information about the subject, it requires success stories and insightful, instructional information about activism and democracy at a personal level; what this book offers in abundance. Thank our lucky stars that Canada does have a strong tendency to spark activism and that we have many fine examples of Canadian activists in a wide range of capacities and locations. We need much more going forward, and the expert experience from around the world gathered up in this book is of great, immediate value. Our problems are not commonly considered "local" only any more, they are seen within the context of a planet undergoing extreme stress from rapid change heavily influenced by human activity. Man's inhumanity to man and the environment persists at full speed around the globe. Ironically, I don't think we can or should control the speed, since innova