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Earth Rising : Ecological Belief in an Age of Science
author
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Oates, David.
publisher
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Oregon State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870713574
print isbn13
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9780870713576
ebook isbn13
:
9780585256023
language
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English
subject
Ecology--Philosophy, Human ecology.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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QH540.7.O27 1989eb
ddc
:
574.5/01
subject
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Ecology--Philosophy, Human ecology.
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Earth Rising
Ecological Belief in an Age of Science
David Oates
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The illustration on page 114 is reprinted from General System Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy with permission of George Braziller, Publishers. 1968 by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. All rights reserved.
Photo on back cover of paperback edition by Christiane Covington.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources and the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials z39.48-1984.
The author and publisher would have liked to print this book on paper which was both acid-free and recycled. When this proved impossible, the publisher's ongoing commitment to producing its books on acid-free paper took priority.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Oates, David, 1950 Earth rising: ecological belief in an age of science/David Oates. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISNB 0-87071-358-2 (cloth), -357-4 (paper) (alk. paper) 1. EcologyPhilosophy. 2. EcologySocial aspects. I. Title. QH540.7.027 1989 574.5'01 DC 19 1989 David Oates 88-25468 All rights reserved CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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To my parents, with love: Walter L. Oates Nancy Belyea Oates
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Acknowledgments
The author owes a special debt of gratitude to Jo Alexander, Managing Editor of OSU Press. Her encouragement and commitment played a central role in bringing this book to press. And her informed, spirited editing not only improved the book, but brought a rare warmth to the labors of scholarship.
To my friend Mark Hoist, who helped and encouraged always, a heartfelt thank-you as well.
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Contents
Introduction: A World to Live In
1
Chapter I: Earthrise and the Readiness for Ecology
11
Chapter II: Holism
32
Chapter III: Balance
57
Chapter IV: Cooperation
80
Chapter V: Cybernetics
102
Chapter VI: The Natural Mind
128
Chapter VII: Ecological Ethics
148
Chapter VIII: Ecologism into the Eighties: Collapse and Continuity
178
Chapter IX: Ecologism into the Eighties: Orthodoxy and Schism
192
Chapter X: The Last Dethronement
209
Epilogue: A Personal and Historical View
219
Notes
229
Index
249
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If both empire and state are too large for the exercise of genuine topophilia, it is paradoxical to reflect that the earth itself may eventually command such attachment: this possibility exists because the earth is clearly a natural unit and it has a common history. Shakespeare's words "this blessed plot," "this precious stone set in a silver sea" are not inappropriately applied to the planet itself. Possibly, in some ideal future, our loyalty will be given only to the home region of intimate memories and, at the other end of the scale, to the whole earth. Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia
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Introduction A World to Live in
When, as humans, we find ourselves presented with the varied phenomena of naturethe vast array of stars wheeling overhead, the profusion of animal life, the cyclically dying and returning forests and savannahs, the rocks and streams and hillsit is our instinct to try to find there one meaning that holds it together, that explains it. The same impulse applies to the potentially more confusing inward world of the human, with its dreams, its fears, its experiences of love and awe, its rational and emotional moments, its capacities for logic and story. This reality, too, needs to be included in the single embrace of the world picture. We need to find order in the dancing kaleidoscope of existence, to make the many into One. We need it to make sense.
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