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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... civilizations that thought they would go on forever, but which then failed to endure for one forgotten reason or another. Optimistically, though, we can look forward a century and see that the world population will have begun to fall ...
... civilizations, and seen them go too, leaving behind mysterious stoneworks, epic myths and many undeciphered languages. Today, we might pause in the shade of lemon and olive groves on limestone slopes, or walk among the aromatic ...
... civilizations that thought they would go on forever, but which then failed to endure for one forgotten reason or another. Optimistically, though, we can look forward a century and see that the world population will have begun to fall ...
... idea of progress deceives us into thinking we are at the summit, the best there is in the animal kingdom, with the best civilization there ever was. We also wrongly believe that we are happier than in the past, ix PREFACE.
... civilization across this century? The options for liberation probably centre on re-establishing the age-old reciprocity with the land, on engaging in ecological restoration and technological innovation, on eating food that comes from ...
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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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