Corey J. A. Bradshaw is the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change in the Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Paul R. Ehrlich lives in California, where he is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including, most recently, Hope on Earth: A Conversation, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
In this fascinating book, Bradshaw and Ehrlich compare the environmental and social factors that have led to the degradation of the environment on the opposite sides of the earth--both countries with an origin in the British Isles, but the US with a much larger biocapacity and about fourteen times as many people. In lively and clear prose, the authors offer many cogent observations on the current plights of their respective countries and offer suggestions about how each could learn from the experiences of the other. Readers of this book will find both pleasure and enlightenment in following the intellectual and emotional journeys of its talented authors and will much practical wisdom in their recommendations and conclusions. --Peter H. Raven, president emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden