MeleeMonk
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Post by MeleeMonk on May 26, 2019 3:54:41 GMT
The non-fiction book I would like to discuss with the pub this week is Rainforests by Lois Warburton.  It is a short, easy read that summarizes the most integral information about tropical & temperate rainforests, including the leading causes of their decline and solutions for how to avoid the destruction of rainforests. Has anyone else here read this book? Please discuss. |
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MeleeMonk
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Post by MeleeMonk on May 26, 2019 4:03:18 GMT
This is the first book I would recommend to anyone who doesn't know much about rainforests. Being the most complex and important ecosystems on earth, it can be very difficult to sum up the key points on why they're so invaluable to our planet and what industries are responsible for their decline, but this book somehow manages to address every single point despite being on the shorter side (less than 100 pages from what I remember).
It's the perfect introduction to rainforests and I think everyone should take the time to read it. It was an eye-opening read for me personally, and I feel like it offers easy solutions to preventing deforestation that the all mainstream environmental films from Fern Gully to Avatar have failed to deliver.
Easily a 5/5 book. A must read.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on May 26, 2019 8:26:44 GMT
I'd be pretty surprised if anyone has even heard about it before let alone read it.
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Post by cobretti on May 26, 2019 15:25:44 GMT
When is the movie coming out?
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Balder
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Post by Balder on May 26, 2019 15:32:54 GMT
When is the movie coming out? Hopefully David A. Prior gets the rights to do an adaptation of it filled with military dudes, mercenaries and Vietnam veterans. It could certainly use lots of explosions and a simpler story-line, wouldn't you agree? |
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Post by cobretti on May 26, 2019 15:46:53 GMT
When is the movie coming out? Hopefully David A. Prior gets the rights to do an adaptation of it filled with military dudes, mercenaries and Vietnam veterans. It could certainly use lots of explosions and a simpler story-line, wouldn't you agree? The good guys (the Americans) win after blowing up the rainforest and the jungle natives that were previously never contacted by the modern world build a church and a McDonalds. |
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Balder
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Post by Balder on May 26, 2019 16:13:41 GMT
Hopefully David A. Prior gets the rights to do an adaptation of it filled with military dudes, mercenaries and Vietnam veterans. It could certainly use lots of explosions and a simpler story-line, wouldn't you agree? The good guys (the Americans) win after blowing up the rainforest and the jungle natives that were previously never contacted by the modern world build a church and a McDonalds. Sounds like a god damn masterpiece. Thank god that the Americans showed those jungle natives how to get their priorities straight. MeleeMonk how faithful would this be to the book? |
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Post by scipioafricanus on May 26, 2019 22:54:32 GMT
The good guys (the Americans) win after blowing up the rainforest and the jungle natives that were previously never contacted by the modern world build a church and a McDonalds. Sounds like a god damn masterpiece. Thank god that the Americans showed those jungle natives how to get their priorities straight. MeleeMonk how faithful would this be to the book?  |
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Post by Armored Core Raven on May 26, 2019 23:13:43 GMT
If this book is so important and people need to read it, why isn't it available for free for all to read online? I can only find copies to purchase. I guess money matters just a taaaaaad bit more to ol' Lois than whatever's up with rainforests these days.
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Post by centipede on May 27, 2019 12:11:12 GMT
From the looks of the cover, it was very likely self published. Self published books are only made in limited quantities, like a dozen as opposed to maybe a few hundred copies from a normal publisher.
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Post by Balder on May 27, 2019 12:25:31 GMT
From the looks of the cover, it was very likely self published. Self published books are only made in limited quantities, like a dozen as opposed to maybe a few hundred copies from a normal publisher. The paper was made from the finest of rainforest trees. |
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Post by centipede on May 27, 2019 21:18:16 GMT
Most likely they'd insist on using recycled paper.
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Post by scipioafricanus on May 28, 2019 4:37:39 GMT
Most likely they'd insist on using recycled paper. Which is actually worse for the environment, since there is no incentive to plant new trees for more paper. |
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Post by centipede on May 28, 2019 7:55:51 GMT
Most likely they'd insist on using recycled paper. Which is actually worse for the environment, since there is no incentive to plant new trees for more paper. And why the hell wouldn't there be? Don't people plant new trees to regrow forests? The idea is to have fewer trees cut down for paper. |
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Post by scipioafricanus on May 28, 2019 10:12:05 GMT
Which is actually worse for the environment, since there is no incentive to plant new trees for more paper. And why the hell wouldn't there be? Don't people plant new trees to regrow forests? The idea is to have fewer trees cut down for paper. Simple economics: company that produces paper or 2X4's needs to have the product to do so. If they just use recycled items, they have no reason to plant more trees for their product; they just reuse what is already processed. If they don't recycle, then they better damn well plant more trees to keep their business intact.
Same reason that we will never run out of chickens or cows. Those are eaten/used by a LOT of people. Black Rhinos, tigers, etc... not so much.
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