Reviews for What's the problem?: An essay on land degradation, science and development in sub-Saharan Af...

The average rating for What's the problem?: An essay on land degradation, science and development in sub-Saharan Af... based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-01 00:00:00 John Lee Whether Sheldrake is a genius before his time or a crackpot riding the New Age wave doesn't matter that much to me because the book is just plain interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-07 00:00:00 Alex Lue Ahead of its time in many ways, with its insights regarding a new way of envisaging our relationship with nature. At the same time, the insights are not overly radical or romanticising of nature. They are good plain, helpful and realistic practical insights we can use to guide us in changing our relationship with the natural world for the better. A lot of background to how we got in this situation, thanks to the prevalence of certain metaphysical approaches is also made clear. This is not an issue we can fight solely on the moral level, by being good people, it has to be realised that much of science is complicit in a mechanistic world view that tacitly and implicitly promotes some of the extremes of capitalist materialism, consumerism, and selfishness. And so we have to be willing to fight this battle on the metaphysical level also and not cede all knowledge and authority here to a handful of scientific experts spouting a conventional and in many cases dogmatic perspective. This is not about being anti-science though, its about keeping our critical faculties awake, so we can be properly aware, this is our only chance to recreate in ourselves a new and healthy attitude to, and relationship with, nature.