Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life.
Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it..
Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Parr offers a moving vision of a World in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival.
Parr invites readers to travel among the trees of the Amazonian rainforest; take flight with birds and butterflies migrating through the skies; and plunge into the oceans with whales and polar bears-as well as to encounter bodies infected with deadly viruses and maimed by the violence of global capitalism.
In a series of meditations, Earthlings portrays the wonder and beauty of life with deep feeling, vivid detail, and an activist spirit.
She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth.
Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of Earthling life.
We are all Earthlings.
More than that, we all-from humans to plants to bacteria-share a planet.
We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years.
Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life
