EarthLove, a satiric eco-adventure, chronicles the history of the global conservation movement and exposes battles pitting ego and greed versus noble intentions. Who has the power to stop the rape of the Borneo rainforest? Rich, virile senator Rod Lawrence promoting left-brain economic arguments? Proto-pagan ethnobotanist Kristin Borin who leads a sensual "Love the Earth, Love Yourself" movement? Or perhaps two powerful and brilliant eco-saboteurs-women who so love orangutans they attempt to destroy the oil palm industry, regardless of legal, financial, ethical, or moral consequences?
EarthLove, which has been compared to Catch-22 in the way it addresses a serious issue with dark humor, highlights the hidden underbelly of the global conservation movement, links between our consumer culture and the natural world, man's seemingly insatiable greed, and the struggle to save orangutans, arguably everybody's favorite wild animal.
Sochaczewski, who lived with people of the rainforest in Borneo and spent decades leading international rainforest conservation campaigns, poses critical questions about one of the most important conservation issues we face. Is there hope for the people of the rainforest? For the orangutans? For the forces of good to outlast the armies of evil?
Author Bio:
Paul
is an American writer (born in Brooklyn, New York), writing coach,
conservationist, and communications advisor to international non-governmental
organizations. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland, and has lived and worked in
more than 80 countries, including long stints in Indonesia, Singapore,
Malaysia, and Thailand.
Paul served in the United States Peace Corps
from 1969 to 1971, working as an education advisor in Sarawak, Malaysia. This
exposure to Asia informed his writing, and as a result most of his work has a
Southeast Asian theme. He was also founding creative director of J. Walter
Thompson advertising agency in Indonesia and Singapore.
As head of creative services at WWF-World
Wide Fund for Nature, 1981-1994, he created international public awareness
campaigns to protect rainforests, wetlands, plants, and biological diversity,
and managed the WWF Faith and Environment Network. With a MacArthur Foundation
grant, from mid-1992 to mid-1993 he took a leave of absence from WWF to write
articles on environmental problems in the Pacific for the Environment Program
at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He then worked for ten years as global
communications director of the International Osteoporosis Foundation.
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