Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium - Couverture rigide

Ehrenfeld, David W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195078128 ISBN 13 : 9780195078121

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

David Ehrenfeld is one of the world's leading writers on environmental issues. In this challenging new book, he examines both the current state of affairs and the prospects of preventing further damage to the planet. In calling for a more enlightened and sustainable relationship with the natural world, Professor Ehrenfeld also considers the influence exerted by certain social, economic, and political forces which seem to be pulling in the opposite direction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The twentieth century is drawing to a chaotic close amidst portents of unprecedented change and upheaval. The unravelling of societies and civilizations and the destruction of nature march together linked a fact whose enormous significance is often lost. In Beginning Again, David Ehrenfeld has undertaken the difficult task of describing the present clearly enough to reveal the future. Out of his broad vision emerges a glimpse of a new nillennium: a vision of once frightening and comforting, a scene of great devastation and great rebuilding. Ehrenfeld ranges far and wide to present a coherent vision of our relationship with Nature - its many aspects and implications as our century opens into the next millenium. Whether he is writing about the problem of loyalty to organizations, rights versus obligations, our over managed society, the vanishing of established knowledge, the failure of experts, the triumph of dandelions, Dr Seuss, or the future of farming, he is always concerned with the intricate intervention between technology and nature. Throughout, Ehrenfeld never loses sight of our fatel love affair with the fantasy of control. We now have no choice, he argues, but to transform the dream of control, of progress, from one of over-weaning hubris, love of consumption, and the idiot's goal of perpetual growth, to one based on `the inventive imitation of nature', with its honesty, beauty, resilience, and durability.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Ehrenfeld is one of the most universally admired thinkers on environmental issues. He is editor of Conservation Biology, and a columnist for Orion magazine. His books include Conserving Life on Earth (OUP, 1972), and the Arrogance of Humanism (OUP, 1971).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195078128
• ISBN 13: 9780195078121
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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