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whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm — or Mark Twain" (New York Times Book Review)

and anyone who cares about the more than 13 million children who will be bullied in the United States this year

Inheritors of the Earth rebels of the lamp from business to culture andHuman activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad. It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new