Becoming good ancestors : how we balance nature, community, and technology / / David Ehrenfeld.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 302 p. |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: Swimming lessons / David Ehrenfeld. 2002. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pretending
- Brainstorming has its limits
- Nothing simple
- The comforts of fantasy
- Rejecting gifts
- The uses and risks of adaptation
- When machines replace people
- Pseudocommunities
- Obsolescence
- Accelerating social evolution
- Writing
- Affluence and austerity
- Energy and friendly fire
- Durable goods
- Preserving our capital
- Conservation for profit
- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation
- Putting a value on nature
- The downside of corporate immortality
- Wilderness as teacher
- An opposing view of nature
- Death of a plastic palm
- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries
- I reinvent agriculture
- Thinking about breeds and species
- Strangers in our own land
- Teaching field ecology
- The ubiquitous right-of-way
- A walk in the woods
- Old growth
- Intimacy with nature
- The utopia fallacy
- Traditions
- Jane Austen and the world of the community
- Universities, schools, and communities
- What do we owe our children?
- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration.