Is the Human Species Special ? Why Human-induced Global Warming Could be in the Interests of Life. - CUMMINS, NIEL PAUL
why human-induced global warming could be in the interests of life
KORTE INHOUD
In this book philosophical and theological themes are sympathetically interwoven with themes relating to the environmental crisis. In the first part of the book the author presents a view of the world in which the human species is special (humans are not just another species of animal). In the second part of the book he urges humanity to take very seriously the danger that we face from global warming. Despite this immense danger he suggests that human-induced global warming is part of what makes the human species special. In the third part of the book the author explains how the issues of individual human purpose, beauty, and our connections to the other life-forms on the planet, are related to the specialness of the human species. He contends that if one shares this vision of the nature of our relationship with the world around us then one is more likely to have a healthy and satisfying life. The main conclusion that the author reaches is that the human species needs to take radical action, of a most unexpec...
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Original publisher's yellow paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 162pp. Very fine copy - as new. Reading, Cranmore Publications. 2010 [Auteur: CUMMINS, NIEL PAUL] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: Is the Human Species Special ? Why Human-induced Global Warming Could be in the Interests of Life.]
