Eden nije bio vrt
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- Author: Calder Nigel
- Publisher: Mediterran Publishing
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 45595
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Eden nije bio vrt
Calder Nigel
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Nigel Calder: Eden Was Not a Garden
The book Eden Was Not a Garden was published in 1967 in New York, but it was previously published in London the same year under the title The Environment Game. American publishers asked the author to change the title because "the word environment didn't mean much to them at the time". The usual contemporary anthropogenic-ecological-geographical-climatic meaning of the word dates back to the seventies of the twentieth century, when there was a mass awakening of "ecological awareness" in the world. Meanwhile, environmentalism has become an ideology, a movement and a policy of "preservation, protection and improvement of the environment". For Nigel Calder, ecology is a word that denotes the comprehensive interconnection of knowledge and life, while at the level of methods, ecology is for him primarily natural (biological) knowledge that should become the moral (value) core of all human knowledge. In advance, it is necessary that it is "acceptable and exciting enough" for the majority of people to attach the highest value to the environment as the greatest "non-monetary wealth" of the human race... To the central question of the book - does the widespread cultivation of the land still remain the most appropriate source of our first physical condition - food? - the author answers in the negative, proposing the gradual replacement of a large part of agriculture with synthetic methods of food production. Calder starts from the basic anthropological point of view that man by evolutionary design is a hunter (an explorer of nature who does not separate work from leisure and play), and not an agriculturist (an exploited worker who earns his living by boring drudgery). Human life on Earth should be understood as a big game, and every game has its own value system...
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- Author: Calder Nigel
- Publisher: Mediterran Publishing
- Year of publication:2016
- Place of publication:Novi Sad
- Pages:208
- Dimensions:14x21 cm
- Script:Cyrillic script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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