{"product_id":"be-fruitful-and-multiply-donald-worster-9780300278972","title":"Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Donald Worster looks back at over 200,000 years of \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens sapiens\u003c\/i\u003e to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from a foraging lifestyle to the agrarian revolution and then to the capitalist way of life, Worster brings us face to face with a third transformation of human society that is beginning to take shape in China: an ecological civilization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This meticulously researched book explores how human desires have driven us to overrun our environments, and how we have adapted by creating new relationships with Earth. Tying the past to the future and humans to the planet, Worster acknowledges that we are at a potentially dangerous tipping point. Yet he offers a surprisingly optimistic vision, full of faith in the strength of our human desires, to help us develop exciting futures in a changing world--as we have done time and again--and achieve a good life for the billions of us trying to survive on a finite planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Worster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300278977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300278972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Donald Worster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46880906346751,"sku":"9780300278972","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e31506d-6bf8-4971-9265-0d76bcb4787d.jpg?v=1747970080","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/be-fruitful-and-multiply-donald-worster-9780300278972","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}