Homo ecophagus : a deep diagnosis to save the earth / Warren M. Hern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hern, Warren M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population--Environmental aspects.

Population.

Human beings--Extinction.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

Home Ecophagus by Warren M. Hern is a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species, but all other species on Earth due to human activities over the past tens of thousands years. The title of the book indicates Hern's new name for the human species: "The man who devours the ecosystem." Over the course of its evolution, Hern observes, humans have evolved cultures and adaptations that have now become malignant and that the human species, at the global level, has all the major characteristics of a malignant neoplasm - converting all plant, animal, organic, and inorganic material into human biomass or its adaptive adjuncts and support systems. Hern contends that this process is incompatible with continued survival of the human species and most other species on the planet, offering a diagnosis and prognosis of the current environmental impasse.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author biography

Introduction

PART ONE Overview - what's the problem?

1 "Save that. We might need it someday"

2 Public health and politics in West Africa

3 Medical school and the Amazon: "You are very keen in your diagnosis"

4 Brazil, Chile, and abortion

5 Public health

research

and revelation

6 A new calling

7 Threat to the Holy Cross Wilderness

8 Family planning, Amazon style

9 "You may not ask that question"

10 "As you know, the human population has just doubled for the first time"

PART TWO Manifestations of malignancy

11 What the fractal is this?

12 Malignant expansion and retroactive heterotrophicity in modern urbanizations

13 Effects of malignant human activity on small, local ecosystems: "It's only eels!"

14 Human contact and island ecosystems

15 Effects of human activities on regional ecosystems

16 Effects of human activity on continental ecosystems

17 The oceans

18 Toxic trash, oncometabolites, and cow farts

19 Effects of human activity on biodiversity

20 Effects of human activity on the global ecosystem

PART THREE Analysis and policy choices

21 Humans as cancer: metaphor, model, analogy, hypothesis, or diagnosis?

22 Human activities and malignant entropy

23 Human culture and the ecophagic imperative

24 "What will be the limiting factor for the human population?"

25 "We have met the enemy, and he is us"

Epilogue: great bringer of death to paradise

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hern, Warren M. Homo Ecophagus

ISBN:

1-00-331495-3

1-003-31495-3

1-000-64014-0

9781003314950

OCLC:

1341006749