Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point
A Art, Nonfiction, Environment book. Really good to read. It make you smart. I recommended.
For more than 30 years, Alex MacLean’s aerial photographs have captured the evolution of the American landscape and the complex relationship between its natural and constructed environments that contribute to climate change. Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point is an ambitious and visually breathtaking catalogue of the extraordinary patterns and profound physical consequences brought about by natural processes and human intervention. The book allows readers to visualize climate change and our culture's excessive use of resources and energy, which account for our oversized carbon footprint. It demonstrates the extent to which the human ecosystem, and our economic and social well being, are dependant upon our wise use of land and its resources. Over is divided into sections covering such as Atmosphere; Way of Life; Automobile Dependency; Electricity Generation; Deserts; Water Use; Sea-Level Rise; Waste and Recycling; and Urbanism. MacLean’s powerful photographs and insightful text make it clear that maintenance of the current American lifestyle is incompatible with a planet of diminishing natural resources and a finite atmosphere. Over compels us all to reconsider our basic assumptions about how...
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780810971455 / 810971453
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Beginning with the Native American proverb, "Treat the earth well: It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children," what follows is a visual masterpiece and brutal expos of the unsustainability of 21st century American existence. Though the primary theme is undeniably bleak, a compelling case is made... This is basically a coffee table book. The photos in it have been taken by Alex Maclean as he piloted his own plane over the American landscape. The photos are very good, and the brief captions are generally useful. Each picture is tagged with the location, and at the beginning of each chapter is a little U.S. map with the photos in... Really good to read. It make you smart. I recommended.
