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After Eden - The Evolution of Human Domination (Paperback, New Ed)
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After Eden - The Evolution of Human Domination (Paperback, New Ed)
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When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend
on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have
altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed
ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing
the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come
to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources
and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on a
seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?In After Eden, Kirkpatrick
Sale answers these questions in a radically new way. Integrating
research in paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology, he points
to the beginning of big-game hunting as the origin of Homo sapiens'
estrangement from the natural world. Sale contends that a new,
recognizably modern human culture based on the hunting of large
animals developed in Africa some 70,000 years ago in response to a
fierce plunge in worldwide temperature triggered by an enormous
volcanic explosion in Asia. Tracing the migration of populations
and the development of hunting thousands of years forward in time,
he shows that hunting became increasingly adversarial in relation
to the environment as people fought over scarce prey during
Europe's glacial period between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago. By the
end of that era, humans' idea that they were the superior species
on the planet, free to exploit other species toward their own ends,
was well established. After Eden is a sobering tale, but not one
without hope. Sale asserts that Homo erectus, the variation of the
hominid species that preceded Homo sapiens and survived for nearly
two million years, did not attempt to dominate the environment. He
contends that vestiges of this more ecologically sound way of life
exist today-in some tribal societies, in the central teachings of
Hinduism and Buddhism, and in the core principles of the worldwide
environmental movement-offering redemptive possibilities for
ourselves and for the planet.
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