Some years ago, I read an excellent book by renowned ecologist Paul Ehrlich titled Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis. At the time I never had thought of using the word "healing" to refer to the significant negative effects humans were having on our magnificent planet and I never had thought of Earth as being a wounded or disabled organism. More recently, I learned of an excellent book by medical doctor Warren Hern called Homo Ecophagus: A Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth and was taken in by accolades from diverse and renowned researchers and his unique physician's view—basically doing a differential diagnosis—of what we are doing to our planet and how we can change our ways from the point of view of a practicing physician. In an interview with Dr. Hern, he argued that humans have evolved cultures and adaptations that have now become malignant.

Given my interest in these two excellent books, I was thrilled to learn of a new highly acclaimed book by the University of California at Berkeley's Dr. Sunaura Taylor titled Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert in which the words "disabled" and "wounded" both appear. Given Sunaura's own disability, her views on the health of the planet and the treatment of other animals she covered in an earlier book called Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation deserve careful attention. As a crusader for disability rights and animal protection Sunaura blends both movements into one and with the publication of Disabled Ecologies she has moved both fields forward with unique and very important perspectives on our boundless and incessant anthropogenic (human caused) damage to a........

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