Earthy Realism : The Meaning of Gaia.
Title:
Earthy Realism : The Meaning of Gaia.
Author:
Midgley, Mary.
ISBN:
9781845403850
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (142 pages)
Series:
Societas ; v.30
Societas
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contributors -- James Lovelock: Foreword -- Body matter -- Mary Midgley: Introduction - The Not-So-Simple Earth -- John Ziman -- The Challenging, Inspiring, Irreducible Pluralism of Gaia -- Brian Goodwin: Gaia and Holistic Science -- Stephan Harding: Animate Earth -- Cormac Cullinan: Gaia's Law -- John Turnbull: Can We Get There From Here? - Why the Gaian Worldview Will Struggle -- Richard Betts: Human-Caused Climate Change - The Evidence -- David M Wilkinson: Do We Need To Worry About the Conservation of Micro‑Organisms? -- Patricia Spallone: The Gaia Effect - Making the Links -- Anne Primavesi: Can Gaia Forgive Us? -- John Mead: The Human Psyche & the Imminence of Climate Catastrophe -- David Midgley: Climate Change and Spiritual Transformation -- Susan Canney: Reconnecting a Divided World - Links Between the Global and the Local -- Maggie Gee: Imagining Gaia - Art Living Lightly With Science -- Elaine Brook: Gaia and the Sacred Feminine -- Back matter -- Other titles by Imprint Academic and Andrews UK.
Abstract:
GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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