EAN: 9783319821351

SEEING OUR PLANET WHOLE A CULTURAL AND ETHICAL ...

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.

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