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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... people worldwide living in urban than rural areas. Thus the estrangement grows. We lose nature and green places, and we forget the animals and birds that once were there. We eat anonymized foods that have no placebased stories, and put ...
... people (most, but not all) has created a 3500km2 exclusion zone, which has been reinvaded by animals, birds and fish. The old people who remain are now entering their own end times. Similar reinvasions occurred after other civilizations ...
... people – those who are civilized from the barbarians on the edge of the known map. Yet many of these other groups have ... people's hopes and desires, or their unique world views, scientific knowledge and values. All we are left with is ...
... peoples of the tropical rainforests.4 Since the establishment of the first cities at Uruk, Tell Brak and Catalhöyük ... people's hopes and desires, or their unique world views, scientific knowledge and values. All we are left with is ...
... people, and is so complex and intertwined as to appear almost impossible to comprehend. How would it look if we shrunk it down to a single village of 100 people? Our global village would have 20 people in the north, 15 of whom would ...
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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