Ill Nature
by Joy Williams
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"Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country.". "Joy Williams sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Among Ill Nature's nineteen essays are: "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp" on the way we love what we love to death; "The Killing Game," her famous anti-hunting essay that caused a furor when it first appeared in Esquire; "Safariland," on the state of wildlife in Africa; "The Animal People," tracking the movements of the animal rights movement; "The Case against Babies," on the blithe determination of American women to continue to populate the Earth.". "Williams refuses to compromise as the lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something ... now."--BOOK JACKET.
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Environmental degradationMoral and ethical aspectsNatureEnvironmental ethicsEffect of human beings onHuman ecology
About the author
Joy Williams
1944
**Joy Williams** (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her notable works of fiction include State of Grace, The Changeling, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. -Wikipedia
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