INTERVIEW WITH BUDD TITLOW AND MAR AUTHORS OF “COMING FULL CIRCLE” “...we all our natur
fun-loving nomads, racist ferrymen, grizzled mountain men, trickster trappers, and ambushing poachers. Then—as the story moves through the Industrial Revolution and into modern times—merchants and developers start to dominate with their tawdry acts of wiping out entire bird rookeries for women’s hats, ditching and draining south Florida’s wilderness, blasting away mountaintops for coal, damming pristine rivers, destroying coastal shorelines, and fracking entire landscapes into oblivion. Tessa loves her job. Her career is what motivates her to get out of bed every morning. But she hasn’t been feeling well lately. She is troubled by what she witnessed as a teenager and has been seeing a ther- apist, but it hasn’t been helping. She realizes that in order to heal, she needs to confront her fears and travel to Japan where her troubles started. Emphasizing optimism, the last part of Com- ing Full Circle features the human resiliency that has allowed us to overcome the many existential threats—the Civil War, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, Nazi Germany, the Cold War, COV- ID-19—we have faced as a Nation. The story con- cludes by answering this question: Will we find and apply solutions in time to save humanity’s place on our beautiful planet? In essence, Coming Full Cir- cle is a fiction sequel to our 2016 award-winning, non-fiction book, Protecting the Planet—Environ- mental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change. What was the inspiration behind the storyline? As a lifelong wildlife ecologist and conservationist, I’ve always been both offput and discouraged by the still far too prevalent
F or the past 50 years, professional ecologist and conservationist Budd Titlow has used his pen and camera to capture the awe and won- ders of our natural world. His goal has always been to inspire others to both appreciate and enjoy what he sees. M ariah Tinger is an author and educator teaching sustainability at Boston Universi- ty’s Questrom School of Business. Additionally, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in climate communi- cation at Otago University in New Zealand. Hi Budd, Welcome to Reader Views! What is Coming Full Circle about? "COMING FULL CIRCLE—A Sweeping Saga of Conservation Stewardship Across America" tells how we took our country to the brinks of both the Climate Crash and the Sixth Extinction and then tried to solve them both. Following the fortunes and foibles of a multi- generational American family, readers first experience a vivid array of frontier vignettes— including wagon-crushing landslides, frontier smack-downs, buffalo killing fields, life- threatening blizzards, deadly avalanches, and Gold Rush boomtowns. Along the way, they also witness heart-warming friendships among white settlers and Native Americans while also meeting wildlife slaughtering ne’er do wells,
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