Examines the use of nuclear energy; explores transitioning to renewable energy; and raises awareness about other planetary issues, from deforestation and sea-level rise to nuclear arms and the potential effects of cell phone use.

"The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's abundance and proposes a radical solution: that we recognize...