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Carl Safina
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
May 23, 1955
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On Jonathan Franzen’s latest climate change piece in the New Yorker (and its pushback)
On September 8, the New Yorker published an article by Jonathan Franzen titled, “What if we stopped pretending?” By September 11, various instant criticisms and rebuttals had been published including a Scientific American piece by Columbia University climate scientist Dr. Kate Marvel, titled, “Shut up, Franzen.”
Basically, Franzen believes there is al
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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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2015
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Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
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2020
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
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1998
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
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2023
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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2011
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Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
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2002
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A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
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Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel
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Owls in Our Yard!: The Story of Alfie
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Probably my favorite book of my early childhood when i was around five years old around 1960. Before I could read my father taught me to sign my name so I could get a library card. It's likely that it was the first book i checked out of the library. I ...more |
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“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned. They fail to encompass the big take-home message, so far, of a century and a half of biology and ecology: life is- more than anything else- a process; it creates, and depends on, relationships among energy, land, water, air, time and various living things. It's not just about human-to-human interaction; it's not just about spiritual interaction. It's about all interaction. We're bound with the rest of life in a network, a network including not just all living things but the energy and nonliving matter that flows through the living, making and keeping all of us alive as we make it alive. We can keep debating ideologies and sending entreaties toward heaven. But unless we embrace the fuller reality we're in- and reality's implications- we'll face big problems.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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“Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us—a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races. ...In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
The Green group is about living in a sustainable manner--how human activity affects the environment and how a changing climate/environment affects how ...more