Screen LibraryThe moon in the nautilus shell : from climate change to species extinction, how life persists in an ever-changing world : discordant harmonies reconsidered /
Why do we keep talking about so many environmental problems and rarely solve any? If these are scientific issues, then why can't scientists solve them or at least agree on what to do? In his new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, ecologist Daniel Botkin explains why. For one thing, although...
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Why do we keep talking about so many environmental problems and rarely solve any? If these are scientific issues, then why can't scientists solve them or at least agree on what to do? In his new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, ecologist Daniel Botkin explains why. For one thing, although we live in a world of constantly changing environments and talk a lot about climate change, most of our environmental laws, policies, and scientific premises are based on the idea that the environment is constant, never changing, except when people affect it. For another, we have lost contact with natu |
| Item Description: | Originally published as: Discordant harmonies, 1990. |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780199913916 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0199913919 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | QH75 |
| CLC: | X37 |
| Call Number: | X37/B749 |
| Contents: | Part One. The current dilemma. -- 1. A view from the marsh : myths and facts about nature -- 2. Why the elephants died : breakdown in the management of living resources -- 3. Moose in the wilderness : the instability of populations -- 4. Oaks in New Jersey : machine-age forests -- Part Two. Background to crisis. -- 5. Mountain lions and mule deer : nature as divine order -- 6. Earth as a fellow creature : organic views of nature -- 7. In Mill Hollow : nature as the great machine -- Part Three. Evolving images. -- 8. The forest in the computer : new metaphors for nature -- 9. Within the moose |