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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... production can be both environmentally sustainable and make links directly to consumers. There is a good story to tell. A major new challenge for all agriculture is rewilding. Sustainable agricultural systems make better use of nature's ...
... production, their DNA, RNA and ribosomes. Chloroplasts have much more DNA, but still not enough to produce all their proteins. The presence of the DNA does suggest, though, that they may have originally been independent organisms, and ...
... production of proteins and enzymes, and the formation of nucleic acids organized into a helix that could pass on stored information. Life had emerged. At this time, the atmosphere is still a reducing one, and there is no free oxygen. An ...
... production, their DNA, RNA and ribosomes. Chloroplasts have much more DNA, but still not enough to produce all their proteins. The presence of the DNA does suggest, though, that they may have originally been independent organisms, and ...
... production, hunted some animals to extinction and looked after others, channelled water for the drylands, planted trees to aid forest regeneration, and harvested fish continuously from the same seas and rivers for tens of thousands of ...
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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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