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Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology
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A brilliant writer and gifted big picture thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. <em>Becoming Good Ancestors</em> unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ec, Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology
  • Written by author David Ehrenfeld
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, October 2008
  • A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ec
  • A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology,
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Preface ix Bookmap xiii Part 1 In Search of Honesty Pretending 3 Brainstorming Has Its Limits 18 Nothing Simple 22 The Comforts of Fantasy 27 Part 2 Keeping Track of Our Losses Rejecting Gifts 37 The Uses and Risks of Adaptation 42 When Machines Replace People 47 Pseudocommunities 51 Obsolescence 58 Accelerating Social Evolution 63 Writing 69 Part 3 Toward a Sustainable Economics Affluence and Austerity 77 Energy and Friendly Fire 82 Durable Goods 87 Preserving Our Capital 91 Conservation for Profit 97 Hot Spots and the Globalization of Conservation 106 Putting a Value on Nature 121 The Downside of Corporate Immortality 127 Part 4 Relating to Nature in a Human-Dominated World Wilderness as Teacher 137 An Opposing View of Nature 141 Death of a Plastic Palm 147 Scientific Discoveries and Nature's Mysteries 151 I Reinvent Agriculture 157 Thinking about Breeds and Species 163 Strangers in Our Own Land 169 Teaching Field Ecology 176 The Ubiquitous Right-of-Way 181 A Walk in the Woods 186 Old Growth 190 Intimacy with Nature 196 Part 5 Restoring the Community The Utopia Fallacy 203 Traditions 210 Jane Austen and the World of the Community 216 Universities, Schools, and Communities 222 What Do We Owe Our Children? 229 Epilogue: A Call for Fusion and Regeneration 240 Notes 259 Credits 291 Index 293


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