Books Added - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Books Added write by Chicago Public Library. This book was released on 1916. Books Added available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels
Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels write by Fatma Gamze Erkan. This book was released on 2024-01-03. Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the relationship between humanity and nature while challenging the notion that anthropocentric behaviour causes the environmental catastrophes depicted in the four selected British eco-science fiction novels. These novels are John Christopher’s The Death of Grass (1956), J. G. Ballard’s The Drought (1965), Brian Aldiss’s Earthworks (1965), and John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up (1972), all of which fictionalise the fact that the consequences of environmental problems can be diverse but equally serious. This book examines how even the smallest damage caused by human beings to the environment negatively affects them, other living beings, and the ecosystem they need to live and flourish. In conjunction with these, the factors and conditions that push characters in the novels to ignore and harm the environment are also scrutinised. While examining how and why the environmental problems in the novels have arisen, it is evaluated whether the authors propose solutions to these problems and, if so, what they are.
Eco-facts and Eco-fiction
Eco-facts and Eco-fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eco-facts and Eco-fiction write by William H. Baarschers. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Eco-facts and Eco-fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ozone-friendly, recyclable, zero-waste, elimination of toxic chemicals - such environmental ideals are believed to offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Where do these ideals come from? Is the environmental debate communicating the right problems? Eco-Facts and Eco-Fiction examines serious errors in perceptions about human and environmental health. Drawing on a wealth of everyday examples of local and global concerns, the author explains basic concepts and observations relating to the environment. Removing fear of science and technology and eliminating wrong perceptions lead to a more informed understanding of the environment as a science, a philosophy, and a lifestyle. By revealing the flaws in today's environmental vocabulary, this book stresses the urgent need for a common language in the environmental debate. Such a common language encourages the effective communication between environmental science and environmental decision-making that is essential for finding solutions to environmental problems.
Eco-Socialism
Eco-Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eco-Socialism write by David Pepper. This book was released on 2002-09-26. Eco-Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2004. Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind Western capitalism have no intention of radically changing their goals and methods to help create an environmentally sound or socially just global society. In order to confront this, the green movement must now develop coherent eco-socialist politics. People must control their own lives and their relationship with the environment. Drawing on Marx, Morris, Kropotkin and anarcho-syndicalism, David Pepper presents an anthropocentric analysis of the way forward for green politics and environmental movements. Establishing the elements of a radical eco-socialism, this study rejects biocentrism, simplistic limits to growth and over-population theses, whilst exposing the deficiencies and contradictions of green approaches to post-modern politics and deep ecology. Eco-socialism should provide students of ecology, politics and the environment with a thorough introduction to the ideologies of Marxism, anarchism and deep ecology, and the ways these can be synthesized into a radical green politics.
Eco-Homes
Eco-Homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eco-Homes write by Doctor Jenny Pickerill. This book was released on 2016-01-15. Eco-Homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. Despite this, relatively few eco-houses are being built. Featuring over thirty case studies of eco-housing in Britain, Spain, Thailand, Argentina and the United States, Eco-Homes examines the ways in which radical changes to our houses – such as making them more temporary, using natural materials, or relying on manual heating and ventilation systems – require changes in how we live. As such, it argues, it is not lack of technology or political will that is holding us back from responding to climate change, but deep-rooted cultural and social understandings of our way of life and what we expect our houses to do for us.
