Nature That Makes Us Human: Why We Keep Destroying Nature and How We Can Stop Doing So

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Michel Loreau (Research Director, Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research)

Nature That Makes Us Human

Why We Keep Destroying Nature and How We Can Stop Doing So

Michel Loreau (Research Director, Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research)

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Oxford University Press Inc
23 August 2023

Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments; Applied ecology; Sustainability

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, resource depletion, new emerging diseases: scientists have raised awareness on the ecological and societal consequences of the unbridled development of human activities for a long time. Why do we keep destroying nature when science makes it clear that in doing so we risk our own destruction? How can we stop destroying our life-support system and reach some kind of harmony between humans and nature?

This book seeks to answer these questions. It describes the inability of modern society to fundamentally modify its relationship with nature, instead engaging in collective fictions such as subject-object duality, matter-mind duality, the primacy of rationality, and the superiority of the human species over all other life. Subsequent chapters identify avenues which could allow human societies to break the current deadlock and forge a relationship with the natural world. This path is rooted in a simple observation: humans have a nature that defines them as a unique species beyond their cultural differences, and at the foundation of this nature we share a set of fundamental needs. The expression and satisfaction of these needs provide an opportunity to reconnect humans with nature in all its forms.

Nature That Makes Us Human combines recent scientific discoveries in biology and psychology with deep philosophical inquiry--in addition to economic, political, and historical considerations--to understand what motivates us to keep destroying nature today and how we can engage in a new relationship with nature tomorrow. This book is for anyone interested in understanding and overcoming the current ecological crisis.

By: Michel Loreau (Research Director Research Director National Center for Scientific Research)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780197628430
ISBN 10: 0197628435
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 23 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part one. Humans versus nature Chapter 1. Homo sapiens, a species among many others but not quite like the others Chapter 2. A brief history of the divorce between humans and nature Chapter 3. Subject and object: The mirror of modernity Chapter 4. Matter and spirit: The great illusion Chapter 5. The underside of economic rationality and progress Chapter 6. Journey to the centre of the modern world Part two. Where humans and nature are one Chapter 7. Letting nature touch us Chapter 8. Recovering nature in us through our fundamental needs Chapter 9. Reunifying knowledge of body and mind Chapter 10. Building a social and economic order that serves life Chapter 11. Embracing life that flows through us References

Michel Loreau is a renowned ecologist, known in particular for his theoretical work on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and on the ecological and societal consequences of biodiversity loss. He has also championed an integrative biodiversity science that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and devoted significant efforts to linking biodiversity science and policy internationally.