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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... 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 place-based stories, and put the fat of the land on ...
... 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 the fat of the land on ...
... urban wastelands, of forgotten linkages to nature, of the nightmare of decivilization?21 The progress myth also shapes how we humans now think of ourselves in relation to animals. Evolutionary biology indicates that we are no more than ...
... urban areas. Nonetheless, many of us still spend a great deal of time engaging with nature in many different ways. In the UK, more than one billion day visits are made to the countryside each year, with five billion visits to urban ...
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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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