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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... million of methane. It has an average temperature of 13°C. The emergence of life changed the Earth to make it more favourable to the survival of life. It didn't intend to. It just did. As the oxygen is produced by early plants, the ...
... million years go by before even the first multicellular algae emerge. We are still 1.5 billion years away from the present. These first organisms all relied on other chemical compounds for their energy, but there was a revolutionary ...
... million of methane. It has an average temperature of 13°C. The emergence of life changed the Earth to make it more favourable to the survival of life. It didn't intend to. It just did. As the oxygen is produced by early plants, the ...
... million years before today. They need large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere to grow and survive. Over the next 300 million years, hard-shelled animals, and jawless and jawed fishes evolve to colonize the seas. Roughly 400 million ...
... million hectares of Amazon rainforest were cleared annually as the cattle herd of the region 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 ...
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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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