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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... Homo sapiens made their ways out of Africa, and later,. agricultural terraces, or knee deep in wild grasses where Neanderthals and, later, At the centre of our sun, the extreme temperature of. Preface: Green Places, Good Places.
... Neanderthals, they have come and gone too, leaving alarmingly little evidence about their people's hopes and desires, or their unique world views, scientific knowledge and values. All we are left with is mysteries – giant carved heads ...
... Neanderthals have been found with flint tools, fragments of bones, Ibex horns, red ochre, necklace beads and ivory, musical instruments, flowers and medicinal herbs. Yet today Neanderthal has become synonymous with backward, something ...
... Neanderthals, they have come and gone too, leaving alarmingly little evidence about their people's hopes and desires, or their unique world views, scientific knowledge and values. All we are left with is mysteries – giant carved heads ...
... Neanderthal, Sumerian, Minoan, Longshan, Mayan and Rapa Nui dancers are all under the hill, and we may soon condemn many more coastal cities than New Orleans to a watery grave as sea levels sharply rise with climate change. Towns on the ...
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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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