02409cam a2200349 i 4500 607077231 TxGeo 20221007120000.0 220107s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982173357 hbk. 1982173351 hbk. (OCoLC)1302901199 TxGeo rda Proulx, Annie, author. Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / Annie Proulx. Short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis, A. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York, NY : Scribner, 2022. 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and introduces the nineteenth-century explorers who launched the ravaging of the Amazon rainforest. Proulx was born in the 1930s, a time, as she says, when 'in the ever-continuing name of progress, Western countries busily raped their own and other countries of minerals, timber, fish and wildlife.' Fen, Bog & Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation from a writer whose passionate devotion to observing and preserving the environment is on glorious display."-- Publisher marketing. 20221018. Swamps Bogs. Peatlands. Peat bog ecology. Climatic changes. QS5