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The Ecology of Eden by Evan Eisenberg - Jun 2000
by Evan Eisenberg
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The Ecology of Eden
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Picador, Jun 2000. New edition. Paperback. Many nature writers choose humanity's relationship to wildness as their topic. Evan Eisenberg examines the question with an eye toward Eden, "the wild place at the center of the world from which all blessings flow." \n Humans left Eden; indeed, having left "Eden" is a defining myth in almost all human cultures. Eisenberg identifies three basic before-the-fall dreams: Eden, a paradise in space and time; Arcadia, the perfect pastoral blend of city conveniences and wilderness beauty; and the Golden Age, a time when things were really good. Humans almost universally think that sometime "before" or in some "other place", we (and all other species) lived in harmony and balance. Through examples ranging from cyanobacteria poisoning the early atmosphere with oxygen to ants raising aphids like cattle, Eisenberg reveals the fallacy of this notion. What humans have done that's different from previous world changers is allied ourselves with the annual grasses--quickly using up half a billion years of soil formation. With our crops, pets and viruses we've nullified continental ecological boundaries. The globe has been remade before, but not this fast or this far. We'll probably have to scale back our influence--the question is how and how much. This is where humanity's environmental battles will be fought in the future. Eisenberg trips up a bit in lumping environmentalists into two camps: planet managers (conservationists) and planet fetishists (preservationists), but he definitely sees the key ecological issues facing our civilization. \n This is a witty, charming, and well-referenced book, full of scary environmental facts and comforting ecological truths. His conclusions are not new--that humans need thriving cities, not sprawling suburbs, to avoid overwhelming the wilderness that's left. But Eisenberg's insight into how we can be at peace with our world is valuable advice, if we could stop dreaming and heed it. --"Therese Littleton "
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- ISBN 10 0330480642
- ISBN 13 9780330480642
- Publisher Picador
- Date Published Jun 2000
- Keywords Applied ecology, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Science: general issues, Eden, Science / Life Sciences / Ecology, Biology, Environment & Ecology: General Interest
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