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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... Hunters and the Hunted 7. Animal Magic Part 3 — Food and the Land 8. The Fatta the Lan' 9. Little Houses on the Prairie 10. The Shadow of the Rain 11. Rewilding Agriculture Part 4 — People and the Land 12. Legible Landscapes 13 ...
... hunter-gatherers. Today, we find ourselves in the remarkable position of being the first species to change our environment to make it less favourable to life. We are making our own world inhospitable, and so risk losing what it means to ...
... hunting of animals is a noisy controversy, but then so is raising animals for food. Many of us conveniently forget ... Hunter-gatherers and farmers expend energy to catch and grow their food; the rest of us rely on cars and are gradually ...
... hunter-gatherers from the land, and then strangely find ourselves dreaming about these very lifestyles. What is so ... hunt, as we once did for millennia, though there is controversy over what constitutes ethical behaviour towards ...
... hunter-gatherer and nomadic lifestyles and settled into modern villages. These disconnections are not just painful, they destroy lives and communities. The final part looks to the future. In the first essay, 'Ecolution', the roles of ...
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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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