Opis: Earth Only Endures - Jules N. Pretty, Pretty

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 world's population adopts 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. "* 'A blend of clear-eyed science and poetic eloquence. To say that this is essential reading is rather like saying that a compass is essential to navigation' David Orr, author of Design on the Edge and The Last Refuge * 'An exemplary blending of passion and rigour. Absolute where it needs to be, always subtle, and often beautiful, and ranging exceptionally widely within space, and deeply within time, it could only have been written by someone with Pretty's expertises, both of library and of the field' Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind * 'Beautifully written... both a celebration and a warning... with its lucid memory of hard facts and its showing how good it is to be alive among the creatures and plants' Ronald Blythe, author of The Age of Illusion and A Year at Bottengoms Farm * 'A very powerful and very compelling book' Bill McKibbon, author of The End of Nature"Preface: Green Places, Good Places * Part I: Green Places * Becoming Green * Birch Bark and Blue Sky * A Room with a Green View * Unhealthy Places * Part II: Animals and Us * Where the Wild Things Were * Hunters and the Hunted * Animal Magic * Part III: Food and the Land * The Fatta the Lani? * Little Houses on the Prairie * The Shadow of the Rain * Rewilding Agriculture * Part IV: People and the Land * Legible Landscapes * Exclusion Zones * Life and Land on the North Atlantic Fringe * Part V: The Future * Ecolution * Liberation * Index

Szczegóły: Earth Only Endures - Jules N. Pretty, Pretty

Tytuł: Earth Only Endures
Autor: Jules N. Pretty, Pretty
Producent: Earthscan
ISBN: 9781844074327
Rok produkcji: 2007
Ilość stron: 288
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.59 kg

Recenzje: Earth Only Endures - Jules N. Pretty, Pretty