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The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist.The Moth Snowstorm is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir of the author's first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature's abundance in the intervening decades, and he proposes a radical solution to our current problem: that we each recognize in ourselves the capacity to love the natural world.Arguing that neither sustainable development nor ecosystem services have provided adequate defense against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate change, McCarthy asks us to consider n

Who reads The Moth Snowstorm : Nature and Joy?

Author

Michael McCarthy

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681370415

Category

science

Subjects

Nature, Sociology, Biography

Rating

4.01 / 5 (136 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14