What can I do to help heal the environmental crisis? /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Our predicament: why we need to heal the world
- Summary
- Introduction
- ecological predicament: why our ecosystems are breaking
- Human dependence on nature
- Overshoot
- Environmental indicators
- Extinction
- Ecosystem collapse
- Being way past ecological limits
- social predicament: why our society is broken
- What is fair? Equity and equality
- Social cohesion and social capital: necessary so we can act
- economic predicament: why our economy is broken
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 2. healing worldview and ethics
- Summary
- Introduction
- Worldview, ethics, values and ideologies
- Anthropocentrism
- history of anthropocentrism
- impracticality of anthropocentrism
- psychology of anthropocentrism: paranoia, fear and denial
- Ecocentrism
- Is ecocentrism anti-human?
- Intrinsic value free from human valuation
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 3. Reality, limits, denial and growthism
- Summary
- Introduction
- Problems with reality
- Why do we deny reality?
- Fear of change
- Failure in worldview and ethics
- Fixation on economics and society
- Ignorance of ecology and exponential growth
- Gambling on the future
- media and communication
- Breaking the denial dam
- `Resources' are infinite only in our minds
- limits to nature's gifts
- Growthism and growthmania
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 4. tragedy of overpopulation denial
- Summary
- Introduction
- It is not just footprints: it's too many feet
- What is an ecologically sustainable global population?
- Why is overpopulation such a difficult policy issue?
- Other reasons why we deny overpopulation
- Is talking about overpopulation anti-human?
- Solutions: the big picture
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 5. Transforming society's assumptions
- Summary
- Introduction
- assumptions of neoclassical economics
- Consumerism
- Alternatives to the consumer society
- Solutions: dealing with the heresy of more
- Assumptions of hate
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 6. Appropriate technology tempered by humility
- Summary
- Introduction
- What is appropriate?
- Techno-centrism and ecomodemism
- Renewable energy: an appropriate technology
- Inappropriate technologies
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 7. Reinvent and rejuvenate yourself: reject hubris
- Summary
- Introduction
- What damages us psychosocially?
- Rethinking our ethics
- Rethinking who we are
- Rethinking our own denial
- Rethinking our eco-spirituality and sense of wonder
- Nature rituals such as the `Council of All Beings'
- Rejecting hubris
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 8. Be in place, don't own it
- Summary
- Introduction
- Ownership: the slavery of place
- `blueprint' of gridding the world
- `Control' and `mastery' of nature
- `Land rights' in balance with `obligation to the land'
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 9. Listen and wonder
- Summary
- Introduction
- truth endlessly rediscovered
- Anti-spirituality in Western culture
- Reawakening an earth spirituality
- Speaking out for re-enchantment
- path back to wonder
- Key steps on the road to wonder
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- 10. Is collapse coming?
- Summary
- Introduction
- Collapse, crisis, catastrophe?
- Thee long emergency and long descent?
- Ecosystem collapse
- Zs if too late? Optimism, pessimism and realism
- Conclusion: towards a `good' collapse?
- What can I do?
- 11. Seek to heal: the `Great Work' of ten key solutions
- Summary
- Introduction
- How do we heal?
- `Great Work'
- Ten solution frameworks
- Worldview, ethics, values and ideologies
- Reinventing ourselves to heal
- Overpopulation
- Consumerism and the growth economy
- Solving climate change
- Keeping life alive
- Appropriate technology: a renewable future
- Reducing poverty and inequality
- Education and communication
- politics of healing
- Conclusion
- What can I do?
- Conclusion
- - healing our world.