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Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
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Cambridge Forum: Stephen Nash
discusses
Grand Canyon For Sale:
Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
in conversation with MICHAEL BRUNE
DateSep
19
Wednesday
September 19, 2018 7:00 PM ET |
LocationFirst Parish Church
1446 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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Cambridge Forum welcomes award-winning author STEPHEN NASH for a discussion of his book, Grand Canyon For Sale, and the precarious future of our national parks, monuments, and wildlife refuges. He will be joined in conversation by Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club.
About Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape.
In addition, a growing political movement, well-financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands.
To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 2 minutes
As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and look for the newsstand called Crimson Corner. Turn right and proceed north along Mass. Ave. going toward the Cambridge Common. You will pass the Harvard Coop, Bank of America, and CVS. The First Parish Church is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St. Please enter through the front door of the church.
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