In the Anthropocene, it is of utmost importance to understand our effect on the ecosystem. But how did we get here? Where did the Western linear, myopic thinking originate from?
To prevent an ecological disaster, it’s useful to understand the roots of our mindset. What schools of thought shaped our lives in the past centuries?
Here is a compilation of excellent books to start on our journey.
The roots of human dominance over nature
- Fritjof Capra
Crisis and transformation in Capra, The Turning Point
Capra’s Other writings are very interesting as well. He explains about Descartes and Newton being the basis of today’s reductionist scientific thinking
- David Livingstone: The roots of ecological crisis
- Lynn Whyte: Historical roots of ecological crisis
- Herbert Marcuse: One dimensional man
- The work of Manuel Castells
- The work of Claus Eder
- Habermas: Technology and science as ideology
- Zygmunt Bauman: Globalisation
- McDaniel, C.N. & J. M. Gowdy — Destruction of nauru, Ladakh, of the Easter islands- different essays
