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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... forests, tundras, deserts and polar regions, or of small-scale and inefficient farming communities, and so seek to convert them all to the benefits of modern life (and dispossess them of the old). Perhaps we are too frightened to think ...
... forests, tundras, deserts and polar regions, or of small-scale and inefficient farming communities, and so seek to convert them all to the benefits of modern life (and dispossess them of the old). Perhaps we are too frightened to think ...
... forest may be an ancestral home to people small in number, but they will be hurriedly forgotten when it is chopped down, burned and converted to productive farmland. Successful conservation efforts also mean there are now more predators ...
... forest schools to country walks. All these are good for health, but for many adults are no more than temporary remedial measures, as we dash back to the rat race. Maybe it is too late for some of us. We have forgotten, and will never ...
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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