In a 2016 piece from Conservation and the Catholic Imagination, Marybeth Lorbiecki cites Aldo Leopold and Thomas Berry, essentially making a case for humanity to move past the Anthropocene stage by becoming participants and partners on this planet instead of “dominators.” This is a view I have long shared with people as diverse as Terrence McKenna, Riane Eisler, and a host of other evolutionary biologists, philosophers, scientists, and writers. Now, Garry Rogers and Coldwater Press deliver us another timely reminder on the state of the planet, which is free of any filler or nonsense, in Biosphere Collapse: Causes and Solutions.
