The Last Tree on Easter Island (Green Ideas)

In twenty short books Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamonds haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.Over the past 75 years a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades becoming the classics of a movement. Together these books show the richness of environmental thought and point the way to a fairer saner greener world. About the Author Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestsellerGuns Germs and Steel which was named one of Time magazines best non-fiction books of all timeCollapse a No. 1 international bestseller andThe World Until Yesterday among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath Diamonds work has been influential in the fields of anthropology biology ornithology ecology and history among others.