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The Weather Makers

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TheSpark
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Posted: 03.26.11, 04:04 PM
Tim Flannery is an extraordinary writer and broadcaster for one who has such a brilliant mind and is a phenomenal research scientist with an outstanding career. He has that rare ability to be intellectually brilliant yet be able to communicate so effectively to the mass audience. He has an easy style, without sounding righteous or condescending, but he doesn't dumb down the science or the research that is the evidence that supports his conclusions. The Weather Makers is yet another brilliant work that, despite its rigorous scientific content, is easily accessible to the layperson thanks to Tim's easy reading style. Like all his works it is completely referenced. The more interested reader can delve deeper into the subject matter or, more importantly, as is his style, the conclusions he draws are completely open for independent appraisal and critical analysis. All his works are good, but this is a return to the greatness that is his earlier work 'The Future-Eaters'. The Future-Eaters has become compulsory reading for anybody interested in the impact that people can have on the ecology and their environment. It's the history of the colonisation of so many new lands by various peoples, sometimes in waves. The inevitable plundering of the resources of any new land that man encounters, the damage this wreaks and irreversible change this causes to the ecology and on the environment the ultimate effect this has back on the people, their culture, prosperity, interactions with other peoples and ultimately their survival. I highly recommend both of these works of Tim Flannery as thoroughly enjoyable must reads for anyone interested in the impact people can have on the environment and/or the impact it can have back on every aspect of our lives and community.
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