Brendon Larson

Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism, Paul Wapner, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2010, 184 pages.

You are probably aware that nature is dead. This may be why you are gloomy all the time. We tried so hard to ensure that biodiversity wasn't lost and climate change didn't spiral (further) out of control, but only an extreme idealist can maintain the illusion any longer. We have lost. Species disappear on a daily basis and we fail to enact even a sem- blance of the climate change policies required to stem the tide. Some of us have even surrendered to the dark side of fab- ricated landscapes and a geoengineered Earth. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. …