Eat, Poop, Die

How Animals Make Our World

Joe Roman

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Profile Books Ltd
25 June 2024

Popular science; Biology, life sciences; The natural world, country life & pets

If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look very different.

The dynamics that shape our physical world-atmospheric chemistry, geothermal forces, plate tectonics, and erosion through wind and rain-have been explored for decades. But the effects on local ecosystems of less glamorous forces-rotting carcasses and deposited feces-as well as their impact on the global climate cycle, have been largely overlooked. The simple truth is that pooping and peeing are daily rituals for almost all animals, the ellipses of ecology that flow through life. We eat, we poop, and we die.

From the volcanoes of Iceland to the tropical waters of Hawaii, the great plains of the American heartland, and beyond, Eat, Poop, Die takes readers on an exhilarating and enlightening global adventure, revealing the remarkable ways in which the most basic biological activities of animals make and remake the world-and how a deeper understanding of these cycles provides us with opportunities to undo the environmental damage humanity has wrought on the planet we call home.

By: Joe Roman
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781805221692
ISBN 10: 1805221698
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 25 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, marine ecologist, and editor 'n' chef of eattheinvaders.org. Winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act, Roman has written for the New York Times, Science, Slate, and other publications. He is a fellow and writer in residence at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont.

Reviews for Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

'One of those rare books that truly changes the way you look at the world' - Lucy Cooke 'Fascinating. Deserves the widest possible readership' - Elizabeth Kolpert 'You read it with an entirely new appreciation and respect for the animals on this earth' - Bill McKibben 'A series of great and important stories about the threads that bind together the living world ... and his writing is so good that he sweeps a reader along' - Carl Safina 'With expert knowledge and wry humor, Roman returns animals to their rightful place at the center of the environment' - Kirkus