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Title: SEEING OUR PLANET WHOLE: A CULTURAL AND ETHICAL VIEW OF EARTH OBSERVATION
Volume: 2017
By: Harry Eyres
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 3319406027
ISBN 13: 9783319406022
Publisher: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
Pub. date: 23 September, 2016
Edition: 2017 ed.
Pages: 136
Description: Showing how our ability to see the Earth from 'necessary distance' has profound cultural and ethical implications, this book reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as mother and its more recent conception as a resource to be exploited. The global change revealed by satellites should convince us of the need to act more responsibly.
Synopsis: This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "the necessary distance" has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia. In particular, it reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as nurturing mother and the more recent conception of the Earth as a neutral resource able to be infinitely exploited by humankind. The 1968 Earthrise photograph, showing the beauty and fragility of the Earth, helped spark a worldwide environmental movement; now the comprehensive coverage of global change provided by satellites has the potential to convince us beyond reasonable doubt of the huge alterations being wrought upon the Earth and its climate system as a result of human actions, and of the need to act more responsibly.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: Switzerland
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Returns: Non-returnable
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