Escape from Bubbleworld: Seven Curves to Save the Earth
Language: English
Published by Ard Macha Press, 2011
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- Title
- Escape from Bubbleworld: Seven Curves to Save the Earth
- Author
- Skene, Keith
- Publisher
- Ard Macha Press
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0956250122
- ISBN 13
- 9780956250124
- Item weight
- 798 grams
Escape from Bubbleworld represents a radical new approach to sustainability. Covering cutting edge thinking in evolutionary biology, ecology and genetics, this book is packed with modern biology. Written in a unique style, it combines humour and poignancy as it sweeps from Easter Island through to a beach in Scotland, and from global economics to product design. We meet an amnesiac squirrel and a man who built his house on the back of four elephants. We discover why waving your false teeth in the air can save your life and why we've got conservation all wrong. Combining philosophy, history, social science and ecology, Escape from Bubbleworld is a detective story, searching for the answers that can save the human race from disaster, and finding them!
The Biosphere has been cruelly assaulted by our efforts to maintain hugely expensive lifestyles and a bloated population. We have unleashed the three great horsemen of this modern apocalypse, climate change, habitat destruction and pollution. Extinction rates are two hundred times higher than background, the ozone layer has been depleted by fifty percent and skin cancer rates are soaring. Yet we carry on regardless. How can we possibly ignore the dire consequences of our activities?
Welcome to Bubbleworld. Bubbleworld is a place of isolation, selfishness, distorted thinking and artificial reality. Separated from our original context, as part of a balanced biosphere, we have lost our way and turned to ourselves for solutions. This book explores how we ended up in Bubbleworld, and brings a positive message: we can escape!
Using seven key graphs to explore how the rest of the planet works, Skene explains how we can rediscover sustainability within a new context, or, rather, one that we used to know well. He sets out a new philosophy for conservation, sustainability, design and resilience, one that celebrates balance, flow and diversity. It's not too late to escape from Bubbleworld!
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About the Author
Dr Keith Skene is one of the leading new voices in sustainability, and director of the influential Biosphere Research Institute, an independent think-tank on sustainability and resilience. He was born and raised in the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1965. For 15 years, he has worked as a scientist in the areas of developmental biology and evolutionary ecology and has published widely on plant, animal and ecosystem evolution, his work being translated into four languages. A former holder of the prestigious Australian Association of Rhodes Scholars Scholarship, he has carried out fieldwork in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. His first book, Shadows on the Cave wall, met with critical acclaim and was heralded as a landmark publication in evolutionary biology. Aside from biology, his burning passions are blues guitar and philosophy, which, he claims, inform each other fundamentally. He currently lectures in Natural History at the University of Dundee. Keith Lives in Angus with his wife young son boy and foster children.
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