04044cam a2200397 4500 233449828 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616147648 1616147644 B00BH0VPII Amazon 4f6ab562-5019-4f4a-9b4f-8d69629652fe OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1233696 OverDrive (Product ID) 228716 1233696 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Worthy, Kenneth. Invisible Nature [Libby eBook] : Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment. Prometheus Books, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4414kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world.</b><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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. <i>Invisible Nature</i> 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.</p>. HTML:"Finally there is a book that connects the dots between environmental degradation and all the disconnectedness in modern lives. <i>Invisible Nature</i> offers a coherent way to understand how the breaking of our bonds with nature and each other leads to environmental ruin. [It] gives me hope that in its decoding of our precarious predicament, we will find a way to weave back together all the right pieces.". David Evan Harris, research director at the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Global Lives Project. "The broadest inquiry yet into the origins of our global environmental crisis. . . . A must-read for a fuller understanding of the human predicament and the future of life on earth.". HTML:Richard B. Norgaard, author of <i>Development Betrayed</i>. HTML:<p>"Required reading for all who want a path to a new future."</p>. HTML:Carolyn Merchant, author of <i>The Death of Nature</i>. Nonfiction. Science. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4f6ab562-5019-4f4a-9b4f-8d69629652fe https://samples.overdrive.com/invisible-nature?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/invisible-nature?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/invisible-nature?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)