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Marc Koralnik |
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OVERRUN
Dispachtes from the Asian Carp Crisis
This detailed account of the invasion of Asian carp into North American waterways reads like a Kurt Vonnegut novel or science fiction. Yet the carp's unbelievable progress splashes another clear warning about how so-called solutions have become the chief cause of our problems. Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle
OVERRUN is a wide-ranging work that explores the profound environmental threat posed to us through the migration of invasive species across our ecosystem. Using traditional journalistic techniques, the author criss-crosses North America to meet the people involved in the science, as well as the local and federal politicians who drive the environmental agenda. He attends town hall meetings and goes out into the field with experts, contributing to a broad and robust "you are there" journey into the nooks and crannies of modern environmental science.
While Reeves uses Asian carp as the primary example through which to explore the threats we create for ourselves, his book paints a broader canary in the coal mine picture about the repercussions that result when well-intentioned environmentalists, poor and unsubstantiated science, bloated corporate interests, and disjointed government policies converge. Think Rachel Carson's Silent Spring for a new generation.
Andrew Reeves is a Toronto-based environmental journalist and former energy and resource reporter with Queen's Park Briefing, part of the Toronto Star Media Group. He has Masters degree in human geography from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Reeves is the national environmental columnist for This Magazine; a contributing editor at Alternatives Journal; and a contributing editor at The New Territory. His work has been published in The Globe and Mail, Corporate Knights, and Toronto Life, among others. He has run his own environment and politics blog, Reeves Report, since March 2011.
In 2012, his feature article on Asian carp for This Magazine was nominated for a National Magazine Award and a Society of Environmental Journalists Award. That article became the basis for this debut work, OVERRUN: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis.
While Reeves uses Asian carp as the primary example through which to explore the threats we create for ourselves, his book paints a broader canary in the coal mine picture about the repercussions that result when well-intentioned environmentalists, poor and unsubstantiated science, bloated corporate interests, and disjointed government policies converge. Think Rachel Carson's Silent Spring for a new generation.
Andrew Reeves is a Toronto-based environmental journalist and former energy and resource reporter with Queen's Park Briefing, part of the Toronto Star Media Group. He has Masters degree in human geography from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Reeves is the national environmental columnist for This Magazine; a contributing editor at Alternatives Journal; and a contributing editor at The New Territory. His work has been published in The Globe and Mail, Corporate Knights, and Toronto Life, among others. He has run his own environment and politics blog, Reeves Report, since March 2011.
In 2012, his feature article on Asian carp for This Magazine was nominated for a National Magazine Award and a Society of Environmental Journalists Award. That article became the basis for this debut work, OVERRUN: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis.
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Published 2019-03-01 by ECW |