The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in ItRoutledge, 04/05/2012 - 288 páginas For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more people are living in urban rather than rural areas, bringing about an estrangement. This book, by acclaimed author Jules Pretty, is fundamentally about our relationship with nature, animals and places. A series of interlinked essays leads readers on a voyage that weaves through the themes of connection and estrangement between humans and nature. The journey shows how our modern lifestyles and economies would need six or eight Earths if the entire worlds population adopted our profligate ways. Pretty shows that we are rendering our own world inhospitable and so risk losing what it means to be human: unless we make substantial changes, Gaia threatens to become Grendel. Ultimately, however, the book offers glimpses of an optimistic future for humanity, in the very face of climate change and pending global environmental catastrophe. |
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... Innu are the latest group of native Americans to be removed from their hunter-gatherer and nomadic lifestyles and settled into modern villages. These disconnections are not just painful, they destroy lives and communities. The final ...
... Innu and Inuit of the boreal north to the Ba'Mbuti, Ba'Twa and Ba'Yaka pygmy peoples of the tropical rainforests. 4 Since the establishment of the first cities at Uruk, Tell Brak and Catalhöyük some 6000 years ago, there have been forty ...
... Innu and Inuit of the boreal north to the Ba'Mbuti, Ba'Twa and Ba'Yaka pygmy peoples of the tropical rainforests.4 Since the establishment of the first cities at Uruk, Tell Brak and Catalhöyük some 6000 years ago, there have been forty ...
... a minute, this feels like anathema. But it can be a release. Once I sat all day with a friend and two Innu hunters in a tent on Lake Melville's boreal shore as the rain lashed down on a cold 19 BIRCH BARK AND BLUE SKY.
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Part 2 Animals and Us | 53 |
Part 3 Food and the Land | 97 |
Part 4 People and the Land | 153 |
Part 5 The Future | 195 |
Notes | 223 |
References | 243 |
Index | 267 |
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