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Karen Bakker is Associate Professor and Director, Program on Water Governance, University of British Columbia. She is the author of Eau Canada: The Future of Water Governance in Canada and An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales.
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She is knowledgeable in biology and animal behaviour. She listens to aboriginal elders and the voices of the sea, and advances in experimental techniques of acoustics and artificial intelligence.
I can’t imagine a better guide to the burgeoning fields of bio-accoustics and eco-accoustics.
In this slim work she invites us into the questions of what other species say to each other and what are we missing out on.
But technology has a marvelous way of opening new vistas to us. In this case acoustical engineering helps us map whales in the seas, follow a honeybee to its next home, or listen to the inaudible — to the human ear — crackling of a stalk of corn.
I am particularly sensitive to sound so when she tells us that noise pollution is cutting us off from nature and hastening the demise of species I hear her loud and clear.
Why is this so important?
Because we are silently killing our fellow creatures at an alarming rate; because we are desecrating the wilderness; because there’s no way back; because some of us love this planet.
NB: If you enjoy this book you will also enjoy Ed Yong’s An Immense World and Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, another terrific Canadian scientist.… (mehr)