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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... Things Were 6. Hunters and the Hunted 7. Animal Magic Part 3 — Food and the Land 8. The Fatta the Lan' 9. Little Houses on the Prairie 10. The Shadow of the Rain 11. Rewilding Agriculture Part 4 — People and the Land 12. Legible ...
... thing. We can no longer conceive of indigenous people living in old, uncivilized ways in the forests, tundras, deserts and polar regions, or of small-scale and inefficient farming communities, and so seek to convert them all to the ...
... thing. We can no longer conceive of indigenous people living in old, uncivilized ways in the forests, tundras, deserts and polar regions, or of small-scale and inefficient farming communities, and so seek to convert them all to the ...
... things makes us feel good. Nature, of course, is not always a good or even neutral place. We do terrible things to each other in the name of personal or collective gain. A woodland might be a site for a family picnic for some, but the ...
... things to rewild their farms, and still find a way to stay in business. Another feature of progress and estrangement is the growing incidence of physical inactivity. Hunter-gatherers and farmers expend energy to catch and grow their ...
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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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