"Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben s "The End of Nature" has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock s intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock s mind is a marvelthere could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of...