The Moth Snowstorm : Nature and Joy

Sue says about The Moth Snowstorm: "Michael McCarthy, journalist and writer on the environment, reflects on the joy and delight that nature brings us whilst also being clear about the way we’re damaging it and losing species."

Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.

Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more.

Author: McCarthy, Michael

Environmentalist thought & ideology

Published on 7 April 2016 by John Murray Press (John Murray Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 272 pages
131 x 197 x 17 | 194g