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A Walk in the PARK: notes on urban ecology

In “A Walk in the PARK” Author John H. Sibley discuss how a year of the Covid-19 pandemic made him re-examine his walks in the park. How he started to look at people and urban wildlife with an urban ecologist lens. What is the difference between an urban squirrel's diet and a suburban one? What is the impact of industrial pollutants on people and wildlife in impoverished neighborhoods? And how environmental terrorism is destroying the planet. How our average g-type star (sun) is shinning on geese in the park-like it did on their avian dinosaur cousins 266 million years ago. Or will global warming be the driver of massive extinctions like the Permian and Triassic periods? Covid-19 produced untold human suffering, but A Walk in the Park shows how we can appreciate nature even during adversity.Read more

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