Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Part I The Problem
1 The World Ends, Twice 7
2 Humanity Needs a Biosphere 11
3 How Much Biodiversity Survives Today? 19
4 An Elegy for the Rhinos 29
5 Apocalypses Now 35
6 Are We As Gods? 47
7 Why Extinction is Accelerating 53
8 The Impact of Climate Change: Land, Sea, and Air 65
9 The Most Dangerous Worldview 71
Part II The Real Living World
10 Conservation Science 83
11 The Lord God Species 95
12 The Unknown Webs of Life 101
13 The Wholly Different Aqueous World 113
14 The Invisible Empire 121
15 The Best Places in the Biosphere 133
16 History Redefined 155
Part III The Solution
17 The Awakening 169
18 Restoration 175
19 Half-Earth: How to Save the Biosphere 185
20 Threading the Bottleneck 189
21 What Must Be Done 209
Sources and Further Reading 213
Glossary 227
Appendix 2:9 Illustration Credits 233
Acknowledgments 237
Index 239