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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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- 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:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4450-1
- 9781529244502
- OCLC:
- 1568061073
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