Primary Format: Cloth | |
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ISBN: | 9781684581528 |
Published: | 06/01/2023 |
Pages: | 176 |
Size: | 5.5 x 8 in. |
Subject(s): | Nature & Environment Economics and Business Sociology |
The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future
Tom Wessels
Cloth: $25.00E-book: $24.95
"This is an impassioned, critical, and bold book. Wessels is guided by his overwhelming sense that the laws of sustainability demand respect, understanding, and interpretation, and unless we educate ourselves about their full complexity and truth, we will do irreparable damage to the landscapes we love."
Northern Woodlands
Wessels is a tried-and-true master of nature writing. . . . [He] argues deftly that due to the limits of material resources, the finitude of time itself and the laws which govern the states in which energy can be captured, transferred or lost, we simply cannot expect to progress for no other reason than progress itself.
—Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Tom Wessels is professor emeritus at Antioch University New England where he founded the master’s degree program in conservation biology. He is the author of Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England; Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape; Granite, Fire, and Fog: The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia; and New England’s Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region’s Unique Natural Areas.