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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... feel? Much, of course, will depend on what else is important in our lives. Is it a good day or a bad day? Irrespective of where we come from in the world, however, it seems that the presence of living things makes us feel good. Nature ...
... feel so much more advanced, and thus likely to carry on forever?3 The term civilization is derived from civitas, the Latin for city, and has come to be used to refer to distinctive cultures with complex social organization, settlements ...
... feel better. I suspect a common symptom in all these civilizations is denial. Surely it cannot be that bad, we say. Look at what we have achieved, look at how far we have come. Many societies seem to have collapsed after acquiring great ...
... feel more stress, and all so that we can stay ahead of someone else. At one time, this was a good plan. When a tiger runs towards you, asks Frank, what should you do? Sing a song? Admire its colours? No – you run immediately. You have ...
... feel – to think of human society and of people. The lake is utterly different on these days. He indicates that we may be living at the end of nature: 'the moment when the essential character of the world we've known [...] is changing ...
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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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