Comments on: Book review – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization

By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:46 +0000

[…] property. Living beings became things. Ecosystems became resources” (p. 70). This echoes Eileen Crist’s furious argument that language powerfully shapes our worldview. He returns to this in the final and possibly most […]

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By: Book review – Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:16:28 +0000

[…] by stories, so, yes, we do need a new narrative. However, I am rather thinking along the lines of Eileen Crist’s call for an ecological civilization that does not see nature as a mere larder, or Carl Safina’s […]

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By: Book review – Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:41:17 +0000

[…] the root causes that got threatened species in trouble in the first place? For me, books such as Abundant Earth and Alfie & Me have really driven home the point that, unless we change our relationship with […]

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By: Book review – Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:14:01 +0000

[…] going to rewild the world. A managed retreat is the only reasonable approach” (p. 238). I agree, and I cannot but marvel at how he is quietly radical here, almost sneaking in under the radar the […]

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By: Book review – Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 16 May 2024 15:13:26 +0000

[…] and singles out Plato in particular. There is a fierceness here that brought Eileen Crist’s Abundant Earth to mind as Safina does not mince his words. Plato’s dualist doctrine, his distinction between […]

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By: Book review – Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:05:31 +0000

[…] not something electrification will solve (Bicycle, anyone? asks your Dutch reviewer). Finally, as Abundant Earth made clear, language shapes our perception, and by continuing to write of “green” and […]

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By: Book review – A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:09:56 +0000

[…] stand still” (p. 248). On the contrary, I have become increasingly receptive to ideas of scaling down and pulling back, and of cultivating an ethos of self-limitation, certainly in the West. These are unpopular topics, […]

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By: Book review – Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:55:53 +0000

[…] the phrase “natural resources”, I was reminded of Eileen Crist’s excellent book Abundant Earth. However, as before, he catches himself – “I hate the shrill fundamentalism in me […]

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By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:19:14 +0000

[…] me be clear: I do not think this is an either-or proposition. However, having reviewed both Abundant Earth and Limits I question the anthropocentric notion that we are entitled to keep shaping the world […]

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By: Book review – The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:51:31 +0000

[…] through loud and clear. As long as we keep talking of the world in terms of natural resources, as a larder to be plundered, the blue economy is just one more case of greenwashing what is business as usual. This concept has […]

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