{"product_id":"9781250829696","title":"Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Nathaniel Rich, author of \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a time when scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity’s clumsy signature. The old distinctions—between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact—have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories—obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported—point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eOdds Against Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e to the film \u003ci\u003eDark Waters\u003c\/i\u003e (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich’s stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. Through the essays in \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer \u003ci\u003eHow do we return to the world that we’ve lost?\u003c\/i\u003e It is \u003ci\u003eWhat world do we want to create in its place?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370656469053,"sku":"9781250829696","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250829696_p0.jpg?v=1771564240","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781250829696","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}