Language: Swedish
"My childhood summers were sunny, filled with swimming and nature experiences. I watched birds and had my own little zoo in the garden. But beneath the surface, things were happening. The lakes were sprouting again, the sea was becoming eutrophic and out in the landscape the birdsong fell silent as poisons spread in the fields.
Rachel Carson opened the eyes of the world with her book Silent Spring. And what she described from the US also happened in Sweden. Environment and nature became my profession." With a strong love for nature as a starting point, Henrik Ekman has been monitoring the environmental area for almost half a century. Fortunately, many environmental problems have been solved, but at the same time new ones have constantly appeared. More complex and global, more difficult to solve. Today the lakes are swimmable again. The air is healthy to breathe. The victims of environmental toxins have returned - the sea eagle, the gray seal, the otter. The acidification that threatened life in many lakes is under control. But around the world agriculture and forestry continue to deplete it biological diversity And at the end of the environmental journey that the book describes, the climate has become the fateful issue of our time.
Product information
Author: Henrik Ekman
Designer: Pär Wickholm
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789113075426
Language: Swedish
Weight: 964 grams
Released: 2021
Publisher: Norstedts
Pages: 448