The Human Age

Maybe we don't need another book telling us how we as a species are having untold effects on the planet. Climate change, animal extinction, oceanic pollution, energy issues - we face severe challenges but Ackerman is an optimist (and a poet besides). She explores innovative solutions that showcase our resourcefulness as a species and is cautiously optimistic about our ability to solve some of the very problems we've created. Like other books of it's ilk, she can only offer fleeting glimpses of our ingenuity as she cruises on to the next but it is with an infectious sense of wonder.