Deep Ecology

And look! This time it wasn’t a Shell ad. Transcript of the video: Adorn yourself with every means necessary to feign eternal youth. Facepaints, prostheses; it is to show you are young and happy. Like the Olympian gods of yore, you can revitalize yourself as you please, and boast your pleasure with showings of material wealth. These acts are only a shallow and false warship of god through oneself. We must reshape ourselves through knowledge and wisdom, not through smoke and mirrors, not through lies and pleasantries. Recognize ourselves as animals that lack a divine sanctioned rite on some higher level than the “rest” of the natural world. This anthropocentrism, the idea that we are special and that he have some higher right over all species, keeps us from acknowledging the spark we call “consciousness” as our only attribute of possible divine attribution. See the future of humans as the realization that we must cherish and nurture that spark into a fire that illuminates and enlightens, against the demon-haunted world. Only through this, one day, we may become gods ourselves, undying and allknowing, but not because of making a let’s-pretend game, or a non-tangible mystery place for a mystery body-inhabiting entity to go after death, but because we forged our destiny, unrelenting, and never stopping to waste time on tinsel. Many will be scared at first. They will want to sit home and go back to eating their pie. It is both, this fear and unconcern that causes our greatest …

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Anti-globalization: Anti-globalization movement, No Logo, Ecofeminism, Tobin tax $21.13 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Chapters: Anti-globalization movement, No Logo, Ecofeminism, Tobin tax, Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, World Social Forum, Uneconomic growth, Avatar, Eco-socialism, Tax haven, The Political Cesspool, 31st G8 summit…

Anti-globalization, including: Anti-globalization Movement, No Logo, Tobin Tax, World Social Forum, Ecofeminism, Annual Meetings Of The International … Over-consumption, Green Politics, Corpwatch $22.58 Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We belie…

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology $13.87 Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers.”This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has com…

The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation $5.00 Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, others. This behavior, in a strange way, makes us good. It also makes us unique in the animal world, where self-interest is far more pronounced. “The essential virtuousness of human beings is proved…

Critical Transitions in Nature and Society: (Princeton Studies in Complexity) $30.02 How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society–and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive introduction to critical transitions in complex systems–the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are passed. Marten Scheffer accessibly describes the dynamical systems theory behind critical transitions, …

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Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves $6.09 Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government’s Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farely Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their waves. Contact with his quarry comes quickly, and Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous famil…

The Water Hole $9.97 Summary:”The Water Hole” is a fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book. Graeme Base takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of the Australian outback. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, with three toucans waiting in the wings, the tale unfolds on many levels. Page by…

Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature $56.78 Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to “sustainable urbanism”–the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and…