Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, resource depletion,
new emerging diseases: scientists have raised awareness on the
ecological and societal consequences of the unbridled development
of human activities for a long time. Why do we keep destroying
nature when science makes it clear that in doing so we risk our own
destruction? How can we stop destroying our life-support system and
reach some kind of harmony between humans and nature? This book
seeks to answer these questions. It describes the inability of
modern society to fundamentally modify its relationship with
nature, instead engaging in collective fictions such as
subject-object duality, matter-mind duality, the primacy of
rationality, and the superiority of the human species over all
other life. Subsequent chapters identify avenues which could allow
human societies to break the current deadlock and forge a
relationship with the natural world. This path is rooted in a
simple observation: humans have a nature that defines them as a
unique species beyond their cultural differences, and at the
foundation of this nature we share a set of fundamental needs. The
expression and satisfaction of these needs provide an opportunity
to reconnect humans with nature in all its forms. Nature That Makes
Us Human combines recent scientific discoveries in biology and
psychology with deep philosophical inquiry—in addition to
economic, political, and historical considerations—to understand
what motivates us to keep destroying nature today and how we can
engage in a new relationship with nature tomorrow. This book is for
anyone interested in understanding and overcoming the current
ecological crisis.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Authors: |
Michel Loreau
(Research Director)
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
168 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-762843-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-762843-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780197628430 |
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