Earthy Realism

图书信息

作者	Midgley, Mary
出版社	Andrews UK
ISBN	9781845403843
出版时间	2012-07-27
字数	23.1万
分类	Andrews UK,进口书,外文原版书,家居,园艺,旅游

读书简介

GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.

目录

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Copyright page

Contributors

James Lovelock: Foreword

Body matter

Mary Midgley: Introduction -- The Not-So-Simple Earth

John Ziman; The Challenging, Inspiring, Irreducible Pluralism of Gaia

Brian Goodwin: Gaia and Holistic Science

Stephan Harding: Animate Earth

Cormac Cullinan: Gaia’s Law

John Turnbull: Can We Get There From Here? -- Why the Gaian Worldview Will Struggle

Richard Betts: Human-Caused Climate Change -- The Evidence

David M Wilkinson: Do We Need To Worry About the Conservation of Micro-Organisms?

Patricia Spallone: The Gaia Effect -- Making the Links

Anne Primavesi: Can Gaia Forgive Us?

John Mead: The Human Psyche & the Imminence of Climate Catastrophe

David Midgley: Climate Change and Spiritual Transformation

Susan Canney: Reconnecting a Divided World -- Links Between the Global and the Local

Maggie Gee: Imagining Gaia -- Art Living Lightly With Science

Elaine Brook: Gaia and the Sacred Feminine

Back matter

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