{"product_id":"9781681370415","title":"The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy","description":"The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his  boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes  in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in  the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those  species that still exist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moth Snowstorm\u003c\/i\u003e is unlike  any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with  the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir  of the author’s first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of  the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of  butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just  been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to  record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature’s abundance in  the intervening decades, and he proposes a radical solution to our  current problem: that we each recognize in ourselves the capacity to  love the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArguing that neither sustainable  development nor ecosystem services have provided adequate defense  against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate  change, McCarthy asks us to consider nature as an intrinsic good and an  emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and  even love. An award-winning environmental journalist, McCarthy presents  a clear, well-documented picture of what he calls “the great thinning”  around the world, while interweaving the story of his own early  discovery of the wilderness and a childhood saved by nature. Drawing on  the truths of poets, the studies of scientists, and the author’s long  experience in the field, \u003ci\u003eThe Moth Snowstorm\u003c\/i\u003e is part elegy, part ode, and part argument, resulting in a passionate call to action.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139692773616,"sku":"9781681370415","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370415_p0.jpg?v=1763693188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}