Peter John Mills
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Rewilding
- The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
- By: Cain Blythe, Paul Jepson
- Narrated by: Robin Laing
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement and enabling a growing number of people to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves.
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Exciting endeavors and prospective endeavors to re-wild our world
- By Kelly Nelson on 05-01-21
- Rewilding
- The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
- By: Cain Blythe, Paul Jepson
- Narrated by: Robin Laing
Conservation Conundrum
Reviewed: 12-31-23
There are a few facts that are incorrect about South Africa. For example, the private ownership of “game” dates back to the early 1970s and culminated in legislation that intrenched this view in 1991/2. This was before Mandela had any influence over legislation. The conundrum, however, is that much of the contents current conservation practices like the landscape approach (an old idea in relative terms), reintroduction and invasion biology already incorporate aspects of rewilding. In South Africa much land under game ranch management cannot be considered in terms conservation success which has more of an ancillary outcome. We (in SA) would consider the changing of land to a more natural state as rewilding, which is what was implied in the book anyway, sometimes! However, the rewilding as proposed by Soule’ requires the repopulating that simulate Pleistocene conditions which is impractical and a waste of money. The Dutch example in the text is a case in point. It is a novel island experiment that cannot function in isolation as a functional ecosystem. Rewilding cannot be considered a new way of looking at conservation but a concept that is additional to the toolbox. The book also does not address how financially sustainable rewilding areas will be. In Africa people want to develop and so if they are in a rewilded landscape how are they going to make a living on it?
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The Insect Crisis
- The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
- By: Oliver Milman
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. What is causing the collapse of the insect world?
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Disturbing
- By Peter John Mills on 06-01-23
- The Insect Crisis
- The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
- By: Oliver Milman
- Narrated by: James Lailey
Disturbing
Reviewed: 06-01-23
Too much management time is spent on mega fauna and we forget about the little things in nature. The book makes an important point, although not directly, that conservation practice must take place across the whole landscape. I enjoyed the read.
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Crimson Arrows
- A Bowhunting Odyssey
- By: Eyad Yehyawi
- Narrated by: Richard Fish
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Crimson Arrows: A Bowhunting Odyssey is narrated from the heart and soul of a bowhunter. Spanning three decades of his adventures, Eyad Yehyawi takes you through the emotions, heartbreaks, and successes from his earliest years in Iowa, to physically and psychologically challenging backcountry hunts in Alaska and Canada, to a breathtaking African safari. Every setback and missed opportunity is revealed, along with the rewards earned through hard work and perseverance.
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Too Over the Top
- By WJ84078 on 11-25-21
- Crimson Arrows
- A Bowhunting Odyssey
- By: Eyad Yehyawi
- Narrated by: Richard Fish
Repetitive
Reviewed: 02-19-23
I would have preferred to hear about poundage’s and arrow weights, B-heads, etc for the specific hunts. Meat processing and food is part of hunting, that would have made the book more interesting as well. One can only read about so many turkey and deer hunts before getting bored.
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False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong. It points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
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Stop climate change panic!
- By Wayne on 07-16-20
- False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
What about biodiversity.
Reviewed: 01-09-23
In spite of the critics, Lomborg continues with his anti-alarm approach. I find this appealing although I think it is a case of two extreme approaches with solutions somewhere in the middle. However, with growth and posterity that is promoted here I wonder how this is possible without loosing much of our biodiversity.
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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Listen to the same story on his podcast for free
- By Dustin on 04-28-21
- The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Irony of war
Reviewed: 01-02-23
Enjoyed the book. The irony in that area bombing won the war over the ideology of precision bombing. Never looked at it like this before.
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
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In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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The Urine of the Earth in a Teacup
- By Marian on 05-12-19
- Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
An interesting account of history
Reviewed: 12-30-22
I enjoy all Jared Diamond books and this one was no exception. I do wish people, especially leaders would read more books like this. I think South Africa fails in all 12 elements mentioned in this book.
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Atlas Shrugged
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 62 hrs and 56 mins
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In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.
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Hurt version decidedly superior
- By Mica on 03-24-09
- Atlas Shrugged
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Superlative
Reviewed: 12-17-22
I found Atlas Shrugged too long but it’s description of a decaying society so relevant to the world today. The author is brilliant and I now understand why she is not popular amongst socialist thinkers. I see, in this story, a modern South Africa falling apart at the hands of the same kind of lunacy as that is described in this story.
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