I found it very interesting that the foreword has nothing to do with the next seventy pages but that is not relevant, what is relevant is how much the author cares about the amount of changes that are happening to our planet. He brings up on many occasions how we as humans are basically disrespecting the earth by causing global warming and pollution. We need to take care of our planet if we are to stay here for long because at the rate that it is going now, our future as a civilization is not going to be pretty.
What I think is the most important thing right now is global warming and as the author said in the foreword, we are about to go past the “point of no return”. If we do not do anything to drastically change our situation, then things on earth are going to get very hot. So hot in fact, that the climate alone is going to melt the polar ice caps completely and flood over some major cities on the coasts of multiple countries.
It’s very cool to see how connected the author seems to be. He talks a lot about how much he loves being a mountain climber and how much he loves the outdoors. When he was younger he even joined a falconry club where they learned how to teach falcons how to hunt. It was very interesting learning about the sheer amount of things that the author did when he was younger.
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