Solutions for a Wounded Planet

Solutions for a Wounded Planet
Author: Jim Kingham
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-04-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 103913436X

Depressed about the environmental disaster currently rocking our world? Unsure about what to do when climate change is only growing worse? Fearful of what the future might look like with so many world powers refusing to acknowledge the issues at hand? Solutions for a Wounded Planet has the answers. With a comprehensive look at both problems and solutions, Kingham details the present condition of the air, water, and land in our world, describes how human activity has been designed to waste the environment, and then shares actions that can be taken at multiple levels (family, community, municipal, regional, provincial, national, and international) to move towards a more sustainable future. Ever wondered what the biggest threat is to the environment? The answer is more complex than you might imagine, and the solution is closer at hand than it might first appear.

Wounded Planet

Wounded Planet
Author: Henk A.M.J. ten Have
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1421427451

Exploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and bioethics. We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean air, safe water, adequate nutrition, effective drugs, and protection from infectious diseases. Today's healthcare experts and policymakers are keenly aware that biodiversity is one of the crucial determinants of health—not only for individuals but also for the human population of the planet. Unfortunately, rapid globalization and ongoing environmental degradation mean that biodiversity is rapidly deteriorating, threatening planetary health on a mass scale. In Wounded Planet, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues that the ethical debate about healthcare has become too narrow and individualized. We must, he writes, adopt a new bioethical discourse—one that deals with issues of justice, equality, vulnerability, human rights, and solidarity—in order to adequately reflect the serious threat that current loss of biodiversity poses to planetary health. Exploring modern environmental challenges in depth, ten Have persuasively demonstrates that environmental concerns can no longer be separated from healthcare challenges, and thus should be included in global bioethics. Going beyond an individualized perspective, he poses audacious questions: What does it mean that patients are poor or uninsured and cannot afford suggested medicines? How can we deal with the air and water pollution that are producing a patient's illness? How do we respond to patients complaining about the safety and quality of drinking water in their neighborhood? Touching on infectious and noncommunicable diseases, as well as food, medicine, and water, Wounded Planet transcends the limited vision of mainstream bioethics to compassionately reveal how healthcare and medicine must take a broad perspective that includes the social and environmental conditions in which individuals live.

Healing This Wounded Earth

Healing This Wounded Earth
Author: Eleanor Stoneham
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1846944457

The world is seriously wounded threatened by violence egocentricity and mass consumerism. Government intervention alone will never solve society's problems. We need personal responsibility and healing on a global scale. This carefully researched book skillfully weaves science and spirituality with philosophy and ancient wisdom using potent imagery of the Wounded Healer embodied in the life of Jesus Christ the story of the healing centaur Chiron and the work of the indigenous shaman. Through suffering his own physical and mental wounds the Wounded Healer acquires a special empathy for recognizing and healing the wounds of others. This book is full of hope as it speaks to a palpable global shift towards holistic and spiritual values. Through the healing needs of relationship our economy our environment and the living Gaia and finally the curing professions of pastoral and medical care it shows how we may all become catalysts for social change for a happier and more peaceful world.

The Post-Pandemic World

The Post-Pandemic World
Author: John Erik Meyer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030917827

The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared. Climate change, scarcity, depletion of natural resources, and the inevitable transition to renewable energy are one time events. Taken together, they present an existential threat to human society. This book is a guide to navigating these megatrends, which confront us now but whose consequences will unfold over decades. By presenting clear options on the path to a renewable energy future, this book gives readers a broad perspective as well as detailed, well-illustrated examples to weigh in making decisions which will secure stability and prosperity for their families, their communities and their nations.

What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?

What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?
Author: Haydn Washington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000708667

The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions. Many of us know that something is wrong with our world, that it is wounded. At the same time, we often don’t know why things have gone wrong – or what can be done. Framing the discussion around three central predicaments – the ecological, the social, and the economic – Washington provides background as to why each of these are in crisis and presents steps that individuals can personally take to heal the world. Urging the reader to accept the reality of our problems, he explores practical solutions for change such as the transition to renewable energy, rejection of climate denial and the championing of appropriate technology, as well as a readjustment in ethical approaches. The book also contains 19 ‘solution boxes’ by distinguished environmental scholars. With a focus on positive, personal solutions, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of environmental science and environmental philosophy, and for all those keen to heal the world and contribute towards a sustainable future.

What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?

What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?
Author: Haydn Washington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000709043

The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions. Many of us know that something is wrong with our world, that it is wounded. At the same time, we often don’t know why things have gone wrong – or what can be done. Framing the discussion around three central predicaments – the ecological, the social, and the economic – Washington provides background as to why each of these are in crisis and presents steps that individuals can personally take to heal the world. Urging the reader to accept the reality of our problems, he explores practical solutions for change such as the transition to renewable energy, rejection of climate denial and the championing of appropriate technology, as well as a readjustment in ethical approaches. The book also contains 19 ‘solution boxes’ by distinguished environmental scholars. With a focus on positive, personal solutions, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of environmental science and environmental philosophy, and for all those keen to heal the world and contribute towards a sustainable future.

Bright Green Lies

Bright Green Lies
Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1948626403

“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,’ the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour

WHAT MR. BIG WEALTH THINKS ABOUT ELON MUSK & MARS PLAN || SERIOUS DEBATE

WHAT MR. BIG WEALTH THINKS ABOUT ELON MUSK & MARS PLAN || SERIOUS DEBATE
Author: MR. BIG WEALTH
Publisher: MR. BIG WEALTH
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

#MrBigWealth __ Well, I feel confused why go to Mars, and abandon America? Like haha why not clean up this earth before we go to colonise another one. It's like having a home and ruining it. Thinking the new home would be anything different. Read for more

Creating A Livable Planet

Creating A Livable Planet
Author: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Creating A Livable Planet: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's Vision for a Sustainable Future by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Explore the visionary leadership of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as he presents his vision for a sustainable future, emphasizing environmental conservation, sustainable development, and the importance of individual and collective efforts to achieve an ecologically balanced world. A nation’s capability of self-sustainability is seen as the foremost marker for it to be considered a developed nation. Its self-sufficiency in agriculture; economy; health and education facilities for its citizens builds its sustainability. An ideal nation should be able to fulfil the basic needs for each of its citizen on its own. To achieve this level of self-sufficiency was one of India’s former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s major aspirations for the country. Creating A Livable Planet is a volume especially compiled with an aim to preserve and spread Dr. Kalam’s enlightening and informative ideas on the usage of right technology to benefit and improve India’s agriculture; economy; atmosphere and health of citizens. He; through these articles; educates the citizens; both young and old; on how using inexpensive; conventional and nature-friendly techniques can help us enrich our agriculture; environment and health. He also advocates the adoption of necessary modern technologies that could help our society evolve.

Cooling the Climate

Cooling the Climate
Author: Peter Bunyard
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 24-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1804419362

This book highlights an often-overlooked factor in climate change: water and its movements through ecosystems. While greenhouse gases are known to heat the planet, the interaction between water, plants, and the atmosphere plays a much more significant role in regulating and cooling the climate. Through processes like photosynthesis and the biotic pump in large forests, water cycles stabilize weather and irrigate continents. By understanding these dynamics, we can confront the climate crisis with new, powerful strategies. Healthy ecosystems, both on land and in oceans, are key to stabilizing the climate. This book provides the scientific background, referencing James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and indigenous wisdom, to offer a fresh perspective on addressing climate change. It proposes strategies for shifting the current climate narrative and outlines the scale and speed of action required to prevent societal collapse. The book also offers specific methods for individual and collective action, calling for a global movement to regenerate the planet. Supported by a Digital Earth platform, billions can unite to restore the biosphere and stabilize societies. It presents a hopeful roadmap, showing how people can take meaningful action to mitigate climate change and build a better future for generations to come.