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The Resource Invisible nature : healing the destructive divide between people and the environment, Kenneth Worthy

Invisible nature : healing the destructive divide between people and the environment, Kenneth Worthy

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Summary
"A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators--lies an unnerving fact that may be even more disturbing than all the environmental and social costs of our lifestyles. The fragmentations of our modern lives, our disconnections from nature and from the consequences of our actions, make it difficult to follow our own values and ethics, so we can no longer be truly ethical beings. When we buy a computer or a hamburger, our impacts ripple across the globe, and, dissociated from them, we can't quite respond. Our personal and professional choices result in damages ranging from radioactive landscapes to disappearing rainforests, but we can't quite see how. Environmental scholar Kenneth Worthy traces the broken pathways between consumers and clean-room worker illnesses, superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and massively contaminated landscapes in rural Asian villages. His groundbreaking, psychologically based explanation confirms that our disconnections make us more destructive and that we must bear witness to nature and our consequences. Invisible Nature shows the way forward: how we can create more involvement in our own food production, more education about how goods are produced and waste is disposed, more direct and deliberative democracy, and greater contact with the nature that sustains us"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
396 pages
Contents
  • Reconnecting and healing a planet
  • Introduction
  • The banality of everyday destruction
  • Sense and connection: the texture of dissociated life
  • From dissociation to destruction through the psyche
  • Dissociations in Western psyches
  • Ancient traces of dissociation
  • Modern traces of dissociation
  • Modern spaces
Isbn
9781616147648
Instance
Label
Invisible nature : healing the destructive divide between people and the environment
Title
Invisible nature
Title remainder
healing the destructive divide between people and the environment
Statement of responsibility
Kenneth Worthy
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators--lies an unnerving fact that may be even more disturbing than all the environmental and social costs of our lifestyles. The fragmentations of our modern lives, our disconnections from nature and from the consequences of our actions, make it difficult to follow our own values and ethics, so we can no longer be truly ethical beings. When we buy a computer or a hamburger, our impacts ripple across the globe, and, dissociated from them, we can't quite respond. Our personal and professional choices result in damages ranging from radioactive landscapes to disappearing rainforests, but we can't quite see how. Environmental scholar Kenneth Worthy traces the broken pathways between consumers and clean-room worker illnesses, superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and massively contaminated landscapes in rural Asian villages. His groundbreaking, psychologically based explanation confirms that our disconnections make us more destructive and that we must bear witness to nature and our consequences. Invisible Nature shows the way forward: how we can create more involvement in our own food production, more education about how goods are produced and waste is disposed, more direct and deliberative democracy, and greater contact with the nature that sustains us"--
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1961-
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Worthy, Kenneth
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illustrations
Index
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Literary form
non fiction
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  • Nature
  • Human ecology
  • Philosophy of nature
  • SCIENCE
  • NATURE
  • NATURE
  • Human ecology
  • Nature
  • Philosophy of nature
  • Umweltschaden
  • Mensch
  • Zivilisation
  • Natur
  • Entfremdung
  • Människan och naturen
  • Humanekologi
  • Nature
  • SCIENCE / Environmental Science
  • Human ecology
  • NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • Philosophy of nature
  • NATURE / Ecology
  • Human ecology
  • Nature
  • Philosophy of nature
  • Umweltschaden
  • Mensch
  • Zivilisation
  • Natur
  • Entfremdung
  • Människan och naturen
  • Humanekologi
Label
Invisible nature : healing the destructive divide between people and the environment, Kenneth Worthy
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index
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volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Reconnecting and healing a planet
  • Introduction
  • The banality of everyday destruction
  • Sense and connection: the texture of dissociated life
  • From dissociation to destruction through the psyche
  • Dissociations in Western psyches
  • Ancient traces of dissociation
  • Modern traces of dissociation
  • Modern spaces
Control code
818738043
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
396 pages
Isbn
9781616147648
Lccn
2013012123
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
  • 40022760706
  • 9925842
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)818738043
Label
Invisible nature : healing the destructive divide between people and the environment, Kenneth Worthy
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Reconnecting and healing a planet
  • Introduction
  • The banality of everyday destruction
  • Sense and connection: the texture of dissociated life
  • From dissociation to destruction through the psyche
  • Dissociations in Western psyches
  • Ancient traces of dissociation
  • Modern traces of dissociation
  • Modern spaces
Control code
818738043
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
396 pages
Isbn
9781616147648
Lccn
2013012123
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
  • 40022760706
  • 9925842
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)818738043

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