Observing Earth's Lifestyle: Considering the Value of Earth Stewardship in Environmental Protection
- ISBN-10
- 1519678517
- ISBN-13
- 9781519678515
- Pages
- 440
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-04-07
- Author
- David Romain
Description
Observing Earth's Lifestyle is an attempt at sharing one geographer's perspective on how Earth lives. The writer lives in North America, where the indigenous peoples have lived for thousands of years, locked into Earth's lifestyle. They understood Earth's lifestyle in ways that today's modern society are just beginning to understand.Observing Earth's Lifestyle begins with a description of the way the plant works. It proceeds to highlight the contrast between Earth's lifestyle and our modern lifestyle. It outlines the consequences of the modern departure from an observation of natural forces as a source of living examples to a reliance on a lifestyle that assumes a lifetime quest to achieve "human control of nature". This quest is the most prominent cause of today's climate crisis.Traditional societies existed for tens of thousands of years before the modern era. They conformed to the harmony of Earth's lifestyle. Our modern lifestyle of the past few hundred years has imposed its will on the land hoping to "improve on nature" through a variety of technological manipulations. This has caused nature to adapt its weather and climate to maintain its own overall harmony of operations. The resulting climate is becoming increasingly inhospitable to human survival. The problem is especially critical in the USA, where the government is unprepared to face up to the consequences of living in combat with the natural environment. Earth's lifestyle includes several routine, but inconvenient natural events, which were taken into account by traditional societies and accommodated in their daily lives to allow them to live in relative safety on the planet. In modern society, however, these events are routinely ignored, often leading to "natural disasters". The author, David Romain, applies his economic development and urban planning expertise to his geographic analysis of the global climate crisis and its projected limits on future generations. He feels strongly that we owe it to our grandchildren to do our utmost to abandon our assault on the natural environment and revert to genuine Earth stewardship, with a particular focus on using Earth's resources in a sustainable manner. In appropriate humility, we need to acknowledge our subordination to Earth's environment and be mature in our response to the current global climate crisis.
