Enric Sala

Enric Sala, ecologista y biólogo marino de fama mundial, nos muestra en este libro inspirador las múltiples razones por las que preservar la biodiversidad de la Tierra es fundamental tanto desde la lógica como desde las emociones y la economía.

A partir de los momentos claves de su toma de conciencia científica, el autor nos enseña por qué nuestra supervivencia depende de todas las especies. De los microbios a los mamíferos, de las algas a los tiburones, todo lo que vive tiene una labor crucial en el tejido interdependiente de la biosfera, y esta obra explora cómo funciona exactamente ese engranaje, cuáles son las consecuencias de las actividades humanas que están destruyendo el mundo natural y qué soluciones prácticas debemos asumir.

Muchos sistemas de creencias tienen entre sus principios el respeto a la naturaleza. En este libro, tan racional como sentido, Enric Sala añade también argumentos económicos a ese imperativo moral y logra cambiar nuestra manera de ver el mundo… y el futuro.… (mehr)

Enric Sala studied algae in his academic career. While completing his field research, Enric noticed that he was writing about their demise. To help save the ecosystems he loves, Enric became a National Geographic Explorer in residence working with the Pristine Seas Project. In The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild Enric Sala presents clear reasoning about the need and benefits of preserving and restoring nature.
Written in a way that any reader can understand and making analogies to the world we know, Sala highlights our connections to nature and how much we rely on and attempt to control nature without fully understanding the systems that control it. Beginning with the basics of biology combined with observations from fieldwork, Sala presents the harsh truths about the consequences of our actions for the planet. The chapters naturally flow through the importance of a good foundation for a healthy ecosystems, studying nature as a method to help understand ourselves, the impact of keystone and foundation species, and trophic cascades. This underscores the interconnectedness that we may never fully understand, but feel that we must change and control. Sala calls attention to the importance of systems that we can not see and the fact that our actions are long reaching and can more negative impacts than we can ever imagine. Most of all, Sala has made a case that simple changes, such as leaving an ecosystem alone can have bountiful positive impacts on biodiversity along with monetary gains for humans. The Nature of Nature gives us a solid reason why we should care about the environment and all the evidence for sustaining and preserving natural areas. It is simply up to us to decide what to do about it.
This book was received for free in return for an honest review.… (mehr)

It is said that everything is connected and if you read this book you will see that on a whole new level. If you remove on piece of an ecosystem it will impact the whole of it or consider what happened when wolves were returned to Yellowstone. Everything is connected. The books starts with various examples of of these interconnected relationships and how they work by showing the results of studies done by the author and by others. It is very interesting but can get a little dry at times. I will note that I read this book a bit at a time while reading other books. That did not diminish its impact.

Mr. Sala shows how keeping Nature in balance is not only vital it is the best thing we could do for our health and the economy. Without an Earth in balance we start to suffer from the loss of that interconnectivity. The book was even updated to include information on COVID. How wild to read about present realities while living them.

It is at the same time a book both hopeful and sad because Man is the is the one harming Nature the most but he is also the one capable of investing in Nature and restoring it. And Mr. Sala makes the case that this is the best course for our general health and for the health of the economy. It’s a powerful book and an important read.… (mehr)