Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.

It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth—we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new places for enterprising …