{"product_id":"9781917189590-the-vanishing-earth","title":"The Vanishing Earth","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Journey Through the Last Days of Abundance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘You will never look at sand, food, phones, or concrete the same way after reading this book. A touching exploration of the dark underbelly of our modern world and how we can move beyond it.’ Luke Kemp, author of \u003cem\u003eGoliath’s Curse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers — strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane — who are stretching naturalist observation into incisive cultural inquiry . Riveting.’ \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA deeply reported journey into the scarred landscapes of global extraction — and a search for the path to repair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity has remade the Earth with astonishing speed. In the last fifty years alone we have taken more out of the planet than in all prior history combined. Across every continent lie the immense wounds left behind by extraction: the mines, quarries, poisoned rivers, and hollowed-out towns that now form the true map of our civilisation and our age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything we touch — rock, metal, sand, water, even thought itself — feeds the reckless dream pursuit of limitless economic growth. Born into a family and landscape steeped in fossil fuels, James Crawford travels through the living ruins of extraction and meets the people living within its extremes: exploring the radioactive fertiliser-ziggurats of Florida’s Bone Valley, the lithium flats of the Atacama, Greenland’s collapsing melt-edge, the desertified shores of Spain’s Sea of Plastic, and the resource-hungry cloud centres birthing new artificial intelligences, to expose the true cost of this hollowed-out dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet within these same landscapes lie radical alternatives. Hope emerges in the communities waging legal battles to leave oil untouched beneath the rainforests of Ecuador and the wildfire-stricken plains of Montana; technologists attempting to reverse extraction on Iceland’s tundra; and architects raising wooden skyscrapers amid Scandinavia’s felled forests — finding the path to repair for a world pushed to the brink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncisive, immersive, and visionary, \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing Earth\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the ideological forces that have shaped the planet and charts the essential pathways that could yet save it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57731685319030,"sku":"9781917189590","price":17.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41094045.jpg?v=1777675097","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781917189590-the-vanishing-earth","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}