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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... villages. The final essay, 'Life and land on the North Atlantic fringe', links the lands of the Scottish Highlands and Islands to those in Labrador. Scotland suffered its own dispossessions in the clearances, as people were removed by ...
... village of 100 people? Our global village would have 20 people in the north, 15 of whom would have 81 per cent of all the income; of the 80 in the south, 22 would have less than $1 a day. The village has 25 hectares of cropland ...
... village elders in a raised wooden house in the sticky mangroves of Fiji. There was a ceremony marking the beginning of some work in the village and centred on the sharing of kava, a drink made from the root of Piper methysticum. For ...
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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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