authors:
- DeFries, Ruth
date: '2015-06-29'
edition:
  published: '2014'
  publisher: Basic Books
goodreads: '18210755'
isbn: '9780465044979'
language: en
lastmod: '2015-06-29'
path: /library/defries-2014.html
published: '2014'
rating: 4
reference: DeFries 2014
subjects:
- beyond-nature
- science
title: 'The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography
  of an Ingenious Species'
type: book
year: 2014