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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... less physically active, and so excess calories do not get burned off. Bizarrely, we seem to buy into a comforting idea that all we do contributes to inevitable economic progress, and that this progress is always a good thing. We can no ...
... less physically active, and so excess calories do not get burned off. Bizarrely, we seem to buy into a comforting idea that all we do contributes to inevitable economic progress, and that this progress is always a good thing. We can no ...
... less inclined to agitate when someone seeks to harm or take away another green place. Indeed, there are some who would celebrate this loss of knowledge, understanding and concern, as it enables them to strip away yet more of the world's ...
... less than $1 a day. The village has 25 hectares of cropland, remarkably feeding four people for every hectare, but a third of the cropland is now degraded in one way or another. There are 57 hectares of pasture and, perhaps surprisingly ...
... less time with family and friends, work harder to get more money, take shorter holidays, and all for what? To have something larger or brighter or newer than someone else. It is true that we can choose what we spend, and so appear to ...
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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