"Our Plundered Planet" 1948 OSBORN, (Henry) Fairfield (SOLD)

OSBORN, (Henry) Fairfield (our maternal great-grandfather)

Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was professor of anatomy at Columbia University, president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.

Little, Brown and Company

1948

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Our Plundered Planet is a book published in 1948 by American conservationist Fairfield Osborn about environmental destruction by humankind. With a focus on soil, the book is a critique of humankind's poor stewardship of Earth. It typifies the earliest apocalyptic environmental literature, in which human beings are seen as destroyers of the natural world.

With disturbing clarity this book points out that we are more likely to destroy ourselves in our persistent and worldwide conflict with nature than in any any war of weapons yet devised.