I enjoyed reading The Future of Life, although at times I found Wilson's prose to be a little too flowery. He writes beautiful descriptions of animals and their habitats, but at times the descriptions are a little too "over the top." Wilson also provides plenty of interesting examples and useful statistics, however, I felt at times that he was "preaching to the choir." The readers of The Future of Life will be environmentalists who are already interested in preserving species, cleaning up the environment, and decreasing the human "footprint" on the Earth and do not need to be convinced that these actions are important. I do recommend The Future of Life to anyone who is concerned about nature and the environment. It is beautifully written and extremely informative.
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, 2002. Dr. Wilson is Pellegrino University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, On Human Nature and The Ants, as well as several others: Consilence: The Unity of Knowledge, In Search of Nature, Naturalist, The Diversity of Life, Biophilia, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, and The Insect Society
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