The View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World by Carl Safina (Author). An exhilarating journey of natural renewal via a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina. Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of Japan Long Island, Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point takes us by way of the four seasons to the four factors of the compass, from the excessive Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm stomach of the tropics of the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then dwelling again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, discover a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, examine dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs which can be resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free.

“Every time science tightens a coil within the slack of our understanding,” Safina writes, “it elaborates its elementary discovery: connection.”

He exhibits how the problems of the surroundings drive very real issues of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace.

In Safina’s palms, nature’s steady renewal factors toward our future. His energetic tales grant new insights into how our world is altering, and what our response must be.

“The View from Lazy Point” is an incredible book which must be required reading by each student in every high school, college and university. It should be read and reread by each trainer, and it needs to be required reading by everyone holding political workplace not only in the USA but also in each nation on earth.

The author, Carl Safina, has achieved us all a remarkable service in alerting us, as soon as again, to the unimaginable quantities of injury mankind is inflicting on nature – issues that have to be addressed now to save our fragile planet. He is very factual, not shrill; he just lays out the observable details in front of us – uncomfortable facts and details which most of the time lie beyond most peoples’ consciousness. And he writes with such a fluid grace that many passages read more like poetry than prose. This e-book will contact everyone who has any concern for the earth, the creatures who share it with us, and the future of humanity existence. In the face of sure, impending doom if we fail to vary our methods, Dr. Safina shines a ray of hope as he tries to teach us to our folly and tries to motivate us to vary our methods earlier than it’s too late.

“The View from Lazy Point” is a MUST READ for everybody!

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Carl Safina (Author)

416 pages

Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition (January 4, 2011)

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