Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
    Unavailable
    The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
    Unavailable
    The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy

    Written by Michael McCarthy

    Narrated by Gordon Griffin

    4.5/5

    ()

    Unavailable in your country

    Unavailable in your country

    About this audiobook

    Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.

    Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, McCarthy presents a new way of looking at the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 5, 2015
    ISBN9781510013476
    Unavailable
    The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
    Author

    Michael McCarthy

    Michael D McCarthy served as a Senior Officer in the Logistics Branch of the RAF, including 3 years as a specialist instructor to Officer Cadets. On leaving the RAF he moved into the management of Customer Support in major Aerospace Companies in the UK and in Sweden. He has wide experience of customer support activity throughout the European aerospace community, covering both major contractors and suppliers. Following early retirement, he has recently spent 2 years working in a support role in a University Library in order to obtain ‘hands-on’ experience of the demands of customer care in this particular environment.

    Related to The Moth Snowstorm

    Related audiobooks

    Science & Mathematics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Love Bugs

      Apr 30, 2020

      Love Bugs
      7 min read

    • Article

      Trees Have Their Own Songs

      Apr 4, 2017

      Trees Have Their Own Songs
      6 min read

    • Article

      Biophilia

      May 6, 2020

      Biophilia
      4 min read

    • Article

      Relax And Read

      May 30, 2019

      Well, the good news is, all of the above are highlighted as the benefits of reading for pleasure, as identified by research from The Reading Agency.* The bad news is, almost a third of us don’t do nearly enough of it. Nevertheless, reading remains a

      1 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: C Pam Zhang

      Dec 11, 2019

      It was the last year of my third decade on this earth, and it seems with every passing year I grow increasingly alien to that earth, or it to me. The post A Year in Reading: C Pam Zhang appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Silent Weave

      May 30, 2023

      THERE ONCE WAS a woman from the mountain village of Breznitsa who was kidnapped by an Arabian prince. In the desert, she lay down her black feredjé cape, stepped on it, and recited a spell. This is how she landed back in her Balkan village wrapped in

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Max Porter

      Dec 6, 2019

      I would have been lost this year (as any other) without poetry to cling to and travel with. The post A Year in Reading: Max Porter appeared first on The Millions.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Counter Culture

      Apr 15, 2020

      Counter Culture
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Full Monty

      Mar 16, 2023

      If I knew I were to die in six months’ time, what would I do in the garden? Perhaps the notion of planting for a future I could not share would seem pointless. But I doubt it. Gardening transcends time. Gardens never exist in any one moment. They are

      3 min read

    • Article

      Fascinating FUNGI

      Sep 24, 2020

      Fascinating FUNGI
      7 min read

    • Article

      What It Takes to Be a TikTok Poet

      Sep 8, 2023

      Surely, learning to self-promote couldn’t be harder or more demoralizing than the last decade I’d spent writing. The post What It Takes to Be a TikTok Poet appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      How To Garden Like A Nonno

      Dec 5, 2021

      There is nothing better than having a nonno, and I should know: I had two of them. Nonnos are no-nonsense, hard-working and cheeky. They know how to fix things, how to make things, how to grow things, how to care for things. They basically know all t

      6 min read

    • Article

      This Writer’s Job: Get Young People To See Poetry Everywhere

      Jul 17, 2019

      Naomi Shihab Nye, the new young people’s poet laureate, encourages children to slow down and notice details – to see that every life is extraordinary.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Constant Gardener

      Jan 3, 2023

      The Constant Gardener
      3 min read

    • Article

      Deep Ecology

      Aug 20, 2014

      Deep Ecology
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Moth Snowstorm

    4.5/5

    15 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Being out and about in the countryside has lots of positives; the views, the fresh air, the sound of bird song and restores our deep connections with the natural world. In The Moth Snowstorm he argues that we cannot be fully human if we lose those connections; for McCarthy the greatest gift that nature gives him is joy. The connections that link us to the outdoors run far back in our DNA, surveys have demonstrated that people subconsciously prefer the open savannah landscapes above all others and that patients in hospital heal faster when they have a view of the natural world through a window. Using various examples, he provides evidence of the damage that we are causing to the animals and landscapes of this world in the pursuit of profit and control. He describes pointless civil engineering projects in the South China Sea, blocking mud flats from the sea and stopping millions of birds having a place to feed on their long migratory routes.

      McCarthy takes time to describe those pivotal points that changed his life. These moments of joy are deftly woven with the pain that the family suffered when he was young when his mother was admitted to an asylum and as his father was away at sea a lot, they were moved to his uncle and aunts house. His brother was traumatised by it; Michael sought solace in bird watching to avoid thinking of the pain and the loss. The family were reunited, though the relationships were fragile and strained. It took years for him to understand his exact feelings properly.

      It is a beautifully written book by an accomplished author. You are not left in any doubt by his fury at the destruction of habitats and places that creatures are totally dependent on them for survival. Whilst we still have some fantastic things left to see, he remind us of what we have lost. The title of the book is a recollection of the masses of moths that people remember driving through a few decades ago that were attracted to the headlights. The decline of some species has reached 90% and they are the lucky ones; others are no longer with us. He is critical of some of the attempts to reverse the trends, explaining why he thinks that they don’t go far enough.

      Frankly it is a worrying book; if we mess this up we don’t have another planet. 4.5 stars