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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... fish and the prey, an intimate bonding. Thus the landscape may be inhabited by imagination alone, which changes the land as it appears to us. 'Animal magic' centres on our relations with animals and the land, our depictions of animals ...
... fish. The old people who remain are now entering their own end times. Similar reinvasions occurred after other civilizations disappeared, such as the Mayans in central America, and after the centuries of forced removal of villagers in ...
... fishes evolve to colonize the seas. Roughly 400 million years before present sees the appearance of the first land plants and amphibians. Now at last the land turns green, some 4.3 billion years after the Earth formed. Where there is ...
... fish continuously from the same seas and rivers for tens of thousands of years. Over this period, nature has never been a fixed and unchanging entity. We have amended it, and it in return helped to choose which of us was to survive ...
... fish. The second reason centres on the felt value of connectivity both to nature and to groups of other people. Many of us value the direct bonding with companion animals (such as dogs or horses) and with wild animals, both by hunting ...
Índice
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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