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From Costa Rican tropical forests to the much-altered British landscape, ecologist Chris D. Thomas finds nature coping well with the human epoch. He disputes the accepted view that humans have irrevocably damaged the natural world: many animals and plants benefit from human presence, lifting biodiversity across most of the world and speeding the formation of new species, perhaps to its highest rate ever. Examples include hybrid bison in North America, the comma butterfly in York, New Zealand's pukekos and thickets of Asian palms in the Alps. He questions the persecution of so-called invasive species and rejects treating the Earth as a faded artwork to restore. Life, he holds, is a story of change. It was published in 2017.
It is among the books Steven Pinker recommended in The Guardian to make readers optimists.
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