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Title: The Human Age

Subtitle: The World Shaped by Us

Author: Diane Ackerman

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-14

Publisher: Headline Digital

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

A beautifully written, insightful and urgent enquiry into man's relationship with nature and our impact on the planet.

Our relationship with nature has changed...radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

In The Human Age, award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. Humans have 'subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness'. We now collect the DNA of vanishing species in a 'frozen ark', equip orangutans with iPads, create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us. Ackerman takes us on an exciting journey to understand this bewildering new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating - perhaps saving - the future.

The Human Age is a surprising, optimistic engagement with the dramatic transformations that have shaped and continue to alter our world, our relationship with nature and our prospects for the future. Diane Ackerman is one of our most lyrical, insightful and compelling writers on the natural world, and The Human Age is a landmark book.

Members Reviews:

The treatment of the roots of humanity's current abilities to change how the world functions was very good. The treatment of fut

"Food for thought" is an understatement. The treatment of the roots of humanity's current abilities to change how the world functions was very good. The treatment of future possibilities was not as interesting to me. I really agreed with the concept that the availability of resources and a peaceful atmosphere can influence not only people who live through peace or chaos, but can influence their children, too. I was teaching Jr. High when the kids whose pregnant mothers lived through the Sputnik scare. Those children were difficult to handle, as are the children who were gestating during 9/11 time and are now in seventh grade.

On the whole, I would recommend this book.

I like Diane Ackerman's other books but this was not very ...

I like Diane Ackerman's other books but this was not very good. The chapters are repetitive and not very interesting the usual lyrical turn of phrases are strained.

easy to read and a keeper

As usual, Diane Ackerman has written a book that is informative, easy to read and a keeper. She offers us hope and gives examples of how people around the world are working to save our planet. Unfortunately, we in North American have to search to find this kind of information, when in fact, it should be a daily news item. We need hope and courage to face and deal with the new age that is certainly here. Well done Ms. Ackerman.

hope & thought provoking

i'm a diane devotee and this book does not disappoint! her imaginative adjectives poetically lead the reader down an adventurous path of learning. Lyrical metaphors paint a brilliant picture of life in the anthropocene era, The Human Age.