Wal macht Wetter

The climate crisis and the mass extinction of animal and plant species are often treated as two separate problems – as if one had to choose which crisis to tackle first. This is a serious mistake, say Frauke Fischer and Hilke Oberhansberg: the hotter climate and the alarming loss of biodiversity not only affect each other, but there are also common solutions for both.

We don’t even have to reinvent the wheel, as nature is an absolute expert at dealing with disturbances and cushioning dangerous extremes. Following the motto “What would nature do?”, we can observe her strategies and simply copy them. The authors entertainingly and clearly explain how whales cool the climate, corals stop floods, and earthworms ensure good drinking water – and why koalas suffer from stomachaches due to the climate crisis.