Edward Goldsmith Bücher

DAS Grundlagenwerk für alle, denen reiner Materialismus als Vision für das 21. Jahrhundert nicht genügt. Mit Beiträgen international renommierter Autoren aus Wirtschaft, Politik, und Wissenschaft (Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Carl Amery u. a.).

Exploring the interconnectedness of human stability and natural systems, Edward Goldsmith emphasizes the importance of preserving the balance within families, communities, and ecosystems. His seminal work argues that the integrity of individuals is intrinsically linked to the health of the broader environment, advocating for a holistic approach to sustainability and ecological harmony.

We, as inhabitants of the earth, are not outside the world - we are in it. The perspective of this provocative environmental primer is a holistic one, embracing the concept of Gaia. Edward Goldsmith and his distinguished coauthors view the natural world not as a collection of detachable working parts, but as a selfgenerating system which while open and responsive to changing circumstances, is limited. It is, they warn, a zero-sum game we are playing and it is late in the day."Imperiled Planet provides an easily-accessible presentation of a wide range of ecosystems, showing how they work, the traditional forms of human use, threats to these systems and the extent and range of losses, the underlying causes of destruction, and what is being done to save them as well as what remains to be done. The authors address serious questions about the political, social, and economic forces that are driving environmental degradation and they propose solutions in several domains, including agriculture, energy, and society at large.Framed by the notion of a living, perishable planet and illustrated by useful and informative diagrams and maps, sections of the book explain the balance of nature and take up specific ecosystems such as ozone and global warming, forests, agricultural lands, rangelands, rivers, groundwater, wetlands and mangroves, coasts and estuaries, seas and oceans, coral reefs, islands, mountains, deserts, antarctica and the arctic. The authors take a hard look at the cost of growth in terms of the human habitat (increasing urbanization and crowding, pollutants from a multitude of sources, epidemics and famines) and at the dynamics of this destruction.The authors are editors of the "TheEcologist. Based in Cornwall England, "The Ecologist was one of the first periodicals to recognize the concept of global ecology and to take a stance on the critical environmental issues of the day.

Environmental and human catastrophe looms ever larger for planet Earth. From the need to build sustainable cities to house growing billions to transforming the international trade system to tackling run-away climate change, positive, powerful action is needed now to turn a deepening global crisis into an opportunity for change. This book, the first major output by leading lights from the World Future Council (WFC), a new international lobby for future generations, seeks nothing less than a complete transformation of how humans relate to the world and one another.

El Tao de la ecología es el resultado de una larga reflexión para establecer una nueva visión del mundo. Edward Goldsmith, entre los precursores a nivel internacional de la cultura ecologista, acompaña a los lectores en una trayectoria rica de estímulos y reflexiones originales con esta obra considerada la "culminación" de su pensamiento. Ser humano y naturaleza como elementos armónicos de una relación actualmente deteriorada, y a recuperar, ilustrada con una multitud de consideraciones científicas, éticas, psicológicas y religiosas. La actual insostenibilidad de nuestro desarrollo económico, la presunta objetividad de la ciencia y el carácter único de la naturaleza como proceso, entre otros temas, ofrecen elementos para analizar desde otra óptica nuestra relación con el mundo que nos circunda. Aporta una crítica radical a la modernidad en la que estamos inmersos, y cuyo principal papel es legitimar y racionalizar el desarrollo económico y el "progreso". Una lectura innovadora e indispensable que nos fascinará. Edward Goldsmith, nacido en París en 1928, es un ecologista de prestigio internacional, no sólo por sus trabajos científicos, sino sobre todo por las luchas que ha llevado a cabo en el frente ecológico y social. En 1991 se le concedió el II Premio Nobel Alternativo, Right Livelihood Award, que se presenta en el Parlamento sueco el día precedente a las concesiones de los Premio Nobel. Fundador de la revista The Ecologist desde hace más de veinte años, ha escrito unos quince libros, el último de los cuales The Case Against the Global Economy (1999). Además de en lengua inglesa El Tao de la ecología ha sido editado también en lengua francesa, italiana, alemana, portuguesa y japonesa.