{"product_id":"natural-alien-2nd-ed-2-e-humankind-and-environment-9780802077851","title":"Natural Alien 2nd Ed 2\/E: Humankind and Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Neil Evernden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this eloquent and sympathetic book, Evernden evaluates the international environmental movement and the underlying assumptions that could doom it to failure. Beginning with a simple definition of environmentalists as \"those who confess a concern for the non-human,\" he reviews what is inherent in industrial societies to make them so resistant to the concerns of environmentalists. His analysis draws on citing such diverse sources as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e, and examines how we tend to think about the world and how we might think about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book does not offer solutions to environmental questions, but it does offer the hope that there can be new ways of thinking and flexibility in human\/environmental relations. Although humans seem alienated from our the natural world, we can develop a new understanding of  self in the world.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition has a new preface and an epilogue in which Evernden analyses the latest environmental catch-phrase: sustainable development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591797588119,"sku":"9780802077851","price":4489.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780802077851.webp?v=1774974571","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/natural-alien-2nd-ed-2-e-humankind-and-environment-9780802077851","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}