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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... increase just as environments and biodiversity come under serious threat, just as we seem to stop going there? The World Health Organization predicts that depression and mental ill-health will be the greatest source of ill-health ...
... increase our comfort, but decrease connections yet further. In the name of progress, we remove the small farmers ... increasing. Some of these we hunt, as we once did for millennia, though there is controversy over what constitutes ...
... increases. For a very long time, though, any free oxygen is immediately absorbed by iron compounds in rocks, which turn rusty red-brown. Now the Earth begins to lose its grey-black colour. The sun is orange, like a permanent sunset, the ...
... increases. For a very long time, though, any free oxygen is immediately absorbed by iron compounds in rocks, which turn rusty red-brown. Now the Earth begins to lose its grey-black colour. The sun is orange, like a permanent sunset, the ...
... increased from 20 to 60 million head. In 2004, 2.6 million hectares were felled, an area the size of Maryland or Belgium. Is this simply the real price we must pay for remarkable economic and technological progress, or is it symptomatic ...
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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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