Abundant Earth toward an ecological civilization

"In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes - a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, exp...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crist, Eileen, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/1796068.pdf
LEADER 04101cam a2200481Ii 4500
001 koha001009888
003 OCoLC
005 20231122154852.0
006 m d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 190102s2019 ilu ob 001 0 eng d
035 |a koha001009888 
040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c N$T  |d N$T  |d EBLCP  |d OCLCQ  |d YDX  |d CUT 
020 |a 9780226596945  |q (electronic book) 
020 |a 022659694X  |q (electronic book) 
020 |z 9780226596778  |q (cloth :  |q alkaline paper) 
020 |z 022659677X  |q (cloth :  |q alkaline paper) 
020 |z 9780226596808  |q (paperback :  |q alkaline paper) 
020 |z 022659680X  |q (paperback :  |q alkaline paper) 
050 4 |a QH75  |b .C735 2018eb 
072 7 |a BUS  |x 054000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 333.95/16  |2 23 
049 |a MAIN 
100 1 |a Crist, Eileen,  |d 1961- 
245 1 0 |a Abundant Earth  |b toward an ecological civilization  |c Eileen Crist. 
264 1 |a Chicago ;  |a London  |b The University of Chicago Press,  |c 2019. 
300 |a 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The destruction of life and the human supremacy complex -- Unraveling Earth's biodiversity -- Human supremacy and the roots of the ecological crisis -- The framework of resources and techno-managerialism -- Discursive knots -- Is the human impact natural? -- The trouble with debunking wilderness -- Freedom, entitlement, and the fate of the nonhuman world -- Scaling down and pulling back -- Dystopia at the doorstep -- Welcoming limitations -- Restoring abundant Earth -- Epilogue: toward an ecological civilization. 
520 8 |a "In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes - a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, expanding economies and international trade, and spreading infrastructures and incursions upon wildlands - she asks the key question: if we know human expansionism is to blame for this ecological crisis, why are we not taking the needed steps to halt our expansionism? Crist argues that to do so would require a two-pronged approach. Scaling down calls upon us to lower the global human population while working within a human-rights framework, to deindustrialize food production, and to localize economies and contract global trade. Pulling back calls upon us to free, restore, reconnect, and rewild vast terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, the pervasive worldview of human supremacy--the conviction that humans are superior to all other life-forms and entitled to use these life-forms and their habitats--normalizes and promotes humanity's ongoing expansion, undermining our ability to enact these linked strategies and preempt the mounting suffering and dislocation of both humans and nonhumans. Abundant Earth urges us to confront the reality that humanity will not advance by entrenching its domination over the biosphere. On the contrary, we will stagnate in the identity of nature-colonizer and decline into conflict as we vie for natural resources."--Provided by publisher. 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 2, 2019). 
653 0 |a Biodiversity conservation. 
653 0 |a Human-animal relationships. 
653 0 |a Human-plant relationships. 
653 7 |a Biodiversity conservation.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01429861 
653 7 |a Human-animal relationships.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00963482 
653 7 |a Human-plant relationships.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00963515 
653 7 |a SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General.  |2 bisacsh 
653 7 |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General  |2 bisacsh 
655 4 |a EBSCO eBooks 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Crist, Eileen, 1961-  |t Abundant Earth.  |d Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019  |z 9780226596778  |w (DLC) 2018017666  |w (OCoLC)1028893800 
856 4 0 |u https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/1796068.pdf 
999 |c 1009888  |d 1009888