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Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth today. He presents compelling evidence that unless we rethink how we generate the power we use to run our global ecosystem, where we get our food, and how we make our money, we will trigger what would be the sixth great extinction on Earth, with dire consequences. Optimistic that we can change this ominous forecast if we act now, Barnosky provides clear-cut strategies to guide the planet away from global catastrophe. In many instances the necessary technology and know-how already exist and are being applied to crucial issues around human-caused climate change, feeding the world's growing population, and exploiting natural resources. Deeply informed yet accessibly written, Dodging Extinction is nothing short of a guidebook for saving the planet.
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As modern science and critical scholarship are beginning to recognize nonhuman animals as fellow subjects and conscious, sentient beings with interests and deserving of respect, moral dilemmas abound as humanity acknowledges the threats our activities pose to human and nonhuman animal life, including the sixth mass extinction, anthropogenic climate change, and widespread exploitation. In this 2022 Special Issue of the Journalism and Media journal, communication professors Carrie Freeman and Núria Almiron curated scholarship assessing the impact this environmental havoc is having on nonhuman animals living in nature (including those free-roaming animals who coexist in our urban spaces) and the vital role that media and communication play in contributing to and remedying these crises. Seven scholars across the USA and Spain contributed chapters exploring how issues affecting “wildlife” (such as octopuses, sharks, coyotes, parakeets, and fishes) are constructed in media and political discourses or are perceived and acted upon by public media, and the authors provide prescriptions to problems facing animals in nature, offering constructive guidance to communicators (from activists to journalists to film-makers).
Humanities --- Social interaction --- white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) --- shark–human conflict --- predators/carnivores and perceived threat --- fear --- science --- pseudoscience --- Jaws --- media representation --- Tiger King --- COVID-19 media --- popular culture --- zoos --- quarantine --- captive wildlife --- creative/critical animal and media studies --- rhetoric --- environmental communication --- eudaimonia --- ethos --- more-than-human --- sensitized compassion --- sixth mass extinction --- Racing Extinction --- Seaspiracy --- manta rays --- animal imagery --- colonialism --- fishing --- shark fin trade --- coyotes --- discourse --- neutralization techniques --- killing contests --- wildlife management --- monk parakeet --- Madrid --- press representation --- invasive species --- conservationism --- control methods --- speciesism --- framing analysis --- text analysis --- sentiment analysis --- n/a --- shark-human conflict
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