Swimming Lessons : Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology

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Swimming Lessons : Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 266 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780195148527
  • DDC分類 333.72

基本説明

Presents an elegant NeoLuddite perspective on the costs to human dignity and potential of the shrinking of wilderness and the ongoing degradation of the environment.

Full Description

David Ehrenfeld is a highly esteemed writer on ecology and conservation biology. The founding editor of The Journal of Conservation Biology and author of The Arrogance of Humanism and Beginning Again, his new book is an elegant study of the cost to human dignity and potential, of the shrinking wilderness and the ongoing degredation of the environment. He ruminates on the impacts of short-sighted governmental and economic policies, and of new technologies on human values and communities, tracing the human impacts upon the urban, agricultural and wilderness environments. Ehrenfeld has a unique, unmistakable voice as a major spokesperson for the conservation ethic and the human values implicit in environmentalism and conservation biology. This book should appeal strongly to readers of Ehrenfeld's earlier books and essays, and reach and satisfy a broad constituency on the green end of the political spectrum.

Contents

SECTION 1: THE LIES WE LIVE ; Brainstorming ; Pretending ; The Magic of the Internet ; Nothing Simple ; Sherlock, Nero, and Us ; SECTION 2: WRECKING OUR SOCIETY-A MANUAL ; Rejecting Gifts ; Adaptation ; Forecast: Chilly, Overcast, Light Drizzle, No People Left ; Pseudocommunities ; Obsolescence ; Social Evolution Versus Sudden Change ; Writing ; SECTION 3: DEADLY ECONOMICS ; Affluence and Austerity ; Durable Goods ; Spending Our Capital ; Saving by Selling ; Hot Spots and the Globalization of Conservation ; The Gingko and the Stump ; The Death Penalty ; SECTION 4: RELATING TO NATURE IN A MANMADE WORLD ; The Vine Cleaners ; A Connoisseur of Nature ; Death of a Plastic Palm ; Scientific Discoveries and Nature's Mysteries ; I Reinvent Agriculture ; Thinking about Breeds and Species ; Teaching Field Ecology ; More Field Ecology: Rightofway Island ; A Walk in the Woods ; Degrees of Intimacy ; SECTION 5. RESTORING THE COMMUNITY ; The Utopia Fallacy ; Traditions ; Jane Austen and the World of the Community ; Universities and Their Communities ; An Invalid's Guide ; Swimming Lessons ; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READINGS