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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... levels and types of consumption that are destroying the world and have forgotten how to say enough is enough. The progress myth also distorts our views of ourselves in relation to animals. We are no more than animals, clever ones of ...
... levels of consumption as North America. And why shouldn't they? After all, that is what we all imply is the pinnacle of economic achievement. This consumer boom is already happening. The new consumers, as Norman Myers calls them, have ...
... levels of consumption as those in the industrialized countries of the North. We can, it is said, grow out of many kinds of economic trouble. But this is grand larceny. It is stealing the truth. It cannot be done, as we would need six ...
... levels of contentment and how it could be. We believe we will be more happy in the future, but seldom are. We also are constantly worrying about how future life events will affect our happiness. As Mike Bell has pointed out, we could ...
... levels sharply rise with climate change. Towns on the permafrost are falling apart, and may have to be abandoned too. How quickly might we forget that there were ever settlements there at all? How sharply will things change if events ...
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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