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Nature's Web - Rethinking Our Place on Earth (Paperback, 1st paperback ed)
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Nature's Web - Rethinking Our Place on Earth (Paperback, 1st paperback ed)
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This powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the
intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from
ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics -
and synthesizes them into a new philosophy of nature in which to
ground our moral values and social action. It traces the origins
and evolution of the dominant worldview that has built our
industrial, technocratic, man-centered civilization, and brought us
to the current ecological crisis. At the same time, it uncovers an
alternative cultural tradition in the world's different religions
and philosophies and describes how these ideas are now surfacing
and coalescing to form an ecological sensibility and a new vision
of nature which recognizes the inter-relatedness of all living
things. Finally, this book integrates these varied traditions with
modern physics and the science of ecology into a larger
philosophical whole that provides the environmental movement with a
comprehensive vision of an organic and sustainable society in
harmony with nature. As ecological disasters continue to threaten
our planet, becoming worse with every passing moment of
indifference, it has become clear that we must take action. We must
change our relationship with nature, and return to the days when
our lives were intimately connected to and dependent upon the
natural world. Nature's Web lays the foundations for that change by
explaining where our complex ideas about nature come from, why they
are wrong, and what we can do to change them.
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