Thinking like a mountain
Canadian non-fiction, Nature, Environment, Science and technology
Automated braille
Summary
Part memoir, part sketchbook, and part environmental testament, Bateman's book charts the progress of his ecological consciousness. In the process, Bateman presents an historical overview of threats to our human and natural heritages, among them the near extinction of the… whales due to massive commercial whaling and PCBs and other toxins; the clear-cutting of old-growth forests at Clayoquot Sound; the devastation of wetlands as a result of modern industrial agriculture; and the vanishing of unique human societies such as the Ba Mbuti in the former Belgian Congo. Bateman writes an impassioned plea to attend to the health of our planet, present and future. 2000.