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Pushing Our Limits
2018
Overview
Pushing Our Limits is a fresh examination of Biosphere 2,
the world's first man-made mini-world, twenty-five years after its
first closure experiment. Author Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew
members locked in the enclosure during the 1991-1993 experiment,
offers a compelling insider's view of the dramatic story behind
Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2 helped change public understanding of what
our global biosphere is and how it provides for our health and
well-being. However, the experiment is often dismissed as a
failure, and news outlets at the time focused on interpersonal
conflicts and unexpected problems that arose. Delving past the
sensationalism, Nelson presents the goals and results of the
experiment, addresses the implications of the project for our
global situation, and discusses how the project's challenges and
successes can change our thinking about Biosphere 1: the Earth.
Pushing Our Limits offers insights from the project that
can help us deal with our global ecological challenges. It also
shows the intense and fulfilling connection the biospherians felt
with their life support system and how this led to their vigilant
attention to its needs. With current concerns of sustainability and
protection of our global biosphere, as well as the challenge of
learning how to support life in space and on Mars, the largest,
longest, and most important experiment in closed ecosystems is more
relevant than ever. The book explores Biosphere 2's lessons for
changing technology to support and not destroy nature and for
reconnecting people to a healthy relationship with nature.
Publisher
University of Arizona Press,The University of Arizona Press
Subject
ISBN
9780816537327, 0816537321
