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The Nature Delusion : Why We Can't Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves.

De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Oliver, Tom.
Language:
English
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
Summary:
A pathbreaking synthesis Gus Speth Rigorous and compelling Michael Foley Why our current fixes for the environmental crisis are making things worse, and what we need to do about it.Does the future of humankind lie in colonising a new planet, or uploading our minds to a digital metaverse?.
Contents:
Front Cover
Series
THE NATURE DELUSION: Why We Can't Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Resilience in face of crisis
Individual resilience and empowerment
Part I The Hidden Dynamics of a Planet in Peril
1 Tipping Points and Vicious Cycles Planetary dynamics are complex, with feedbacks between social and environmental systems
Systems science -​ the study of interconnectedness
Nature-​related risks
Vicious cycles -​ when things get worse quickly
2 Nasty and Brutish The loss of nature can make us more aggressive and warlike
Conflict over resources
'Winner takes all' competition
Cooperation under adversity?
3 Xenophobia How we splinter into 'tribes' under environmental catastrophe
When fiction becomes reality
Groupthink
Is xenophobia adaptive?
Expanding the in-​group
How to overcome xenophobia
4 Losing Our Place How the extinction of nature experience damages mental health
Losing our place
The wonder of nature
Nature for health
Bringing nature back
Nature in silico?
Part II Superficial 'Solutions' from a Sense of Separation
5 Escape the Polycrisis
6 Spaceship Earth Why a 'command and control' approach to nature protection backfires
Our 'little spaceship'
Planetary governance
Dangerous hubris
Command-​and-​control
7 Iron Rule Why we must build shared visions for the future of nature
Participatory planning
But what if the assemblies get it wrong?
The role of attitudes and values
Governing inner development
8 Grow the Economy to Save Nature? Getting rich doesn't help, it just means we destroy nature quicker
Get rich to save nature?
Is clean growth possible?
9 Monetizing Love By treating nature as an asset we care less.
Intangible benefits
Exporting environmental destruction
Transboundary risks from global nature damage
A marketplace for nature
Habitat banking
Financialization of nature markets
Tackling problematic mindsets
Different relationships to nature
10 A Society of Individuals How our self-​identity hinders nature restoration
Hidden impacts
Why would they do it?
Looking after our own
Won't the environmental crisis make people pull together?
11 How We Built a Selfish World Why corporations are designed to destroy nature
The need for deeper cultural change
Social enterprises
Part III Sticking-​Plaster Fixes from a Logic of Isolation
12 Techno-​Fixation Why we are obsessed with inadequate technological fixes
Wishful thinking
Unanticipated side effects
A need for systems thinking
Is techno-​solutionism part of the problem?
Why do we think the way we do?
The problem with object-​oriented thought
13 Locked-​In Why we are failing to transform our institutions to protect nature
Blinkered thinking
The need for joined-​up thinking
Emergent problems
Lock-​ins
Waking up from our lock-​ins
14 The New Singularity A new relationship with nature and technology
Embodied minds
Our more-​than-​human body
Technology as part of humanity and nature
The 'New Singularity'
Part IV Overcoming the Nature Delusion
15 Inner Transformation Mindsets that care for nature
Predicting human evolution
The urgency of planetary intelligence
Are we going backwards?
Growing recognition of the need for inner development
The explosion of scientific evidence on inner change and sustainability
The role of non-​scientific knowledge
An evidence-​based spiritual revolution?
Choosing cultural evolution.
16 Empowerment How our interconnectedness gives us power for system change
Leverage Points
Cascading change
Personal 'super-​leverage' points
Education systems
The financial system and the economy
Legal systems
The rolling crisis
Resilience in the face of adversity
17 Systemic Healing How societal change mirrors individual transformation
Individuals mirroring society
Breaking free from the nature delusion
Notes
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part II
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Part IV
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
1-5292-4450-1
9781529244502
OCLC:
1568061073

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