Earth Spirit: Healthy Planet - Global meltdown or global healing
Book Details
- Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
- Published : January 2022
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 416
- Category :
Environmental Studies - Catalogue No : 96369
- ISBN 13 : 9781789048308
- ISBN 10 : 1789048303
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Healthy Planet offers a clear and concise overview of the global ecological crisis that humanity has brought upon itself, and what options we still have to save a benevolent climate, to restore biodiversity, reduce pollution, and heal the ecosphere of this planet, including ourselves. Since well before the Covid-19 crisis, the United Nations have been emphasizing that only a healthy planet can support healthy people. The degradation and pollution of nature also poisons our own bodies. Climate breakdown and the global loss of biodiversity also threaten the human species.
But what is a healthy planet? How does it work, how much do we disrupt the planet's life support systems, and what changes are overdue? We have all the necessary means at our disposal, though just patching up the worst symptoms won't do anymore, we have to address the underlying causes, including our habits, values, and paradigms. We are at a crucial crossroads, and time is running short. If we act fast enough, a dignified and truly sustainable healthy future awaits.
About the Author(s)
Fred Hageneder is a naturalist who has written eight books on the ethnobotany of trees and the ecology of forests The Spirit of Trees, Yew: A History, The Living Wisdom of Trees. His broad view of planetary ecology culminates in the book Healthy Planet: Global Meltdown or Global Healing. He is a founding member of the Ancient Yew Group (AYG), an independent research group working to protect the ancient yew trees of Britain. And he is a member of the Ecocentric Alliance, a network of academics, ecologists, conservationists and activists promoting ecocentrism and a deep green ethic. He lives and works in the UK.
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