Swimming lessons : keeping afloat in the age of technology / David Ehrenfeld.

By: Ehrenfeld, David [author]
Language: English Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002Description: xvi, 249 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195148525Subject(s): Human ecology | Environmental degradation | Civilization, Modern -- 21st century | Technology -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 304.2 LOC classification: GF49 | .E47 2002Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description
Contents:
1. Lies we live -- Brainstorming ; Pretending ; Magic of the Internet ; Nothing simple ; Sherlock, Nero, and us -- 2. Wrecking our civilization : a manual -- Rejecting gifts ; Adaptation ; Forecast : chilly, overcast, light drizzle, no people left ; Pseudocommunities ; Obsolescence ; Social evolution versus sudden change ; Writing -- 3. Deadly economics -- Affluence and austerity ; Durable goods ; Spending our capital ; Saving by selling ; Hot spots and the globalization of conservation ; Gingko and the stump ; Death penalty -- 4. Relating to nature in a manmade world -- Vine cleaners ; Connoisseur of nature ; Death of a plastic palm ; Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries ; I reinvent agriculture ; Thinking about breeds and species ; Teaching field ecology ; More field ecology : Rightofway Island ; Walk in the woods ; Degrees of intimacy -- 5. Restoring the community -- Utopia fallacy ; Traditions ; Jane Austen and the world of the community ; Universities and their communities ; Invalid's guide ; Swimming lessons.
Summary: This is a study of the shrinking wilderness and the ongoing degredation of the environment, especially its cost to human dignity and potential. The author ruminates on the impacts of short-sighted governmental and economic policies, and of new technologies on human values and communities.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-231).

1. Lies we live --
Brainstorming ; Pretending ; Magic of the Internet ; Nothing simple ; Sherlock, Nero, and us --
2. Wrecking our civilization : a manual --
Rejecting gifts ; Adaptation ; Forecast : chilly, overcast, light drizzle, no people left ; Pseudocommunities ; Obsolescence ; Social evolution versus sudden change ; Writing --
3. Deadly economics --
Affluence and austerity ; Durable goods ; Spending our capital ; Saving by selling ; Hot spots and the globalization of conservation ; Gingko and the stump ; Death penalty --
4. Relating to nature in a manmade world --
Vine cleaners ; Connoisseur of nature ; Death of a plastic palm ; Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries ; I reinvent agriculture ; Thinking about breeds and species ; Teaching field ecology ; More field ecology : Rightofway Island ; Walk in the woods ; Degrees of intimacy --
5. Restoring the community --
Utopia fallacy ; Traditions ; Jane Austen and the world of the community ; Universities and their communities ; Invalid's guide ; Swimming lessons.

This is a study of the shrinking wilderness and the ongoing degredation of the environment, especially its cost to human dignity and potential. The author ruminates on the impacts of short-sighted governmental and economic policies, and of new technologies on human values and communities.

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