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Homo destructor

Werner Bätzing

Homo destructor

From the emergence of humankind to the destruction of the world: the story of our relationship with nature Renowned geographer and Alps researcher Werner Bätzing presents his magnum opus, ‘Homo Destructor – A Human-Environment Story’. This ambitious story of a relationship with nature dating all the way back to the emergence of Homo sapiens also looks at the impending destruction of the human world as we know it. Bätzing believes, we must take a step back and look more closely at the experiences of premodern society in its interactions with the natural world and the environment.

Even in premodern times, human beings intervened in the natural world around them and changed it in order to survive. But they always tried to make these changes positive rather than destructive, because they knew the natural world was the foundation on which their lives, and the lives of future generations, depended. It was only with the dawn of modern science, with the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the market economy, that short-termist thinking and behaviour took over, and nature and the environment began to be exploited without any thought for their long-term survival. It is now clear that such ways of thinking and such behaviour will, in the long term, destroy our whole environment and ultimately lead to our own destruction.

• ‘An encyclopaedic read of rare brilliance.’ - Ingo Mose on ‘Die Alpen’

• An eye-opening book that explains the world and motivates the reader to take action

• The culmination of a lifetime of research

• Why we need to revolutionise our relationship with nature

• Is there a way of interacting with nature without destroying it?

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Published 2023-10-12T08:12:08.966Z by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406806681

ISBN: 9783406806681