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UNINA9910458360503321 |
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Titolo |
Gaia in turmoil [[electronic resource] ] : climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of crisis / / edited by Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker ; foreword by Bill McKibben |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2009 |
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1-282-69439-1 |
9786612694394 |
0-262-25869-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (391 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CristEileen <1961-> |
RinkerH. Bruce |
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Soggetti |
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Gaia hypothesis |
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects |
Environmental ethics |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; I Introductory Essays; 1 One Grand Organic Whole; 2 Our Sustainable Retreat; II The Science of Gaia; 3 How the Biosphere Works; 4 Water Gaia; 5 Gaia and Evolution; 6 Forest Systems and Gaia Theory; III Imperiled Biosphere; 7 Gaia and Biodiversity; 8 Global Warming, Rapid Climate Change, and Renewable Energy Solutions for Gaia; 9 Gaia's Freshwater; 10 Deep Time Lags; IV Gaian Ethics and Education; 11 From the Land Ethic to the Earth Ethic; 12 Principles of Gaian Governance; 13 In the Depths of a Breathing Planet |
14 Sustainability and an Earth Operating System for Gaia15 The Gaian Generation; 16 Gaia Theory; 17 Neocybernetics of Gaia; 18 Intimations of Gaia; V Afterword; 19 Gaia Going Forward; About the Contributors; Index |
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Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology. |
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UNINA9910148993103321 |
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Autore |
Swift Jonathan |
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Titolo |
A Modest Proposal : Bestsellers and famous Books |
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Dinslaken : , : anboco, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (10 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Intro -- A MODEST PROPOSAL -- For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. -- by Dr. Jonathan Swift -- 1729. |
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A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. |
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