100 FLYING BIRDS: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight
ADVANCED READING FOR THE EPILOGUE
EXTINCTION OF MEGAFAUNA IN NORTH AMERICA
An interesting discussion of the relative roles of climate change and human destruction in the loss of North American megafauna is here:
Broughton, J.M., Weitzel, E.M. Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions. Nat Commun 9, 5441 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07897-1
Accessed October 6, 2020
MARCO LAMBERTINI ON CULTURAL CHANGE
The statements of the Director General of the World Wildlife Foundation concerning the need for a change in attitudes toward the relationship of humans and the natural world is in the preface to the Living Planet Report (#11 above).
SHIFT OF OPINION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The Pew Research Center has charted the shifts in attitudes towards climate change. The results from their 2020 survey are described here:
“How Americans see climate change and the environment in 7 charts”. Cary Funk, Brian Kennedy. Pew Research Center. April 20, 1 2020
Accessed October 6, 2020
FALSE NARRATIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
An account of the false and misleading statements made by fossil fuel companies regarding climate change is here:
Amy Westervelte. “How the fossil fuel industry got the media to think climate change was debatable” Washington Post. January 10, 2019.
Accessed October 6, 2020