An edition of Seeing our planet whole
(2017)
Seeing our planet whole
a cultural and ethical view of Earth observation
by Harry Eyres
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This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "the necessary distance" has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia. In particular, it reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as nurturing mother and the more recent conception of the Earth as a neutral resource able to be infinitely exploited by humankind. The 1968 Earthrise photograph, showing the beauty and fragility of the Earth, helped spark a worldwide environmental movement; now the comprehensive coverage of global change provided by satellites has the potential to convince us beyond reasonable doubt of the huge alterations being wrought upon the Earth and its climate system as a result of human actions, and of the need to act more responsibly.--
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Know thyself
Observing the Earth as a totality
The ecological crisis
2. Cosmology and astronomy from prehistory to the Roman Empire
The Timaeus and the Old Testament
Greek philosophy, religion, tragedy
Hellenistic and Babylonian astronomy
Rome
3. Aquinas to Newton
Aquinas
The great chain of being
The new science and philosophy: Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes
Galileo
Francis Bacon: the new philosophy
The mechanisation of nature: Descartes
Dissenting voices: More, Hermeticism
Newton
Kepler's harmony of the world and Newton's alchemical works
Globes 4. The Enlightenment, the Romantic rebellion, the Industrial Age, the nature conservation movement, the twentieth century and total war
Diderot
Swift
The Romantic rebellion
Wordsworth
Goethe
The modern Prometheus
The Industrial Revolutions and the Industrial Age
The Luddites
The Industrial Age and the Victorian reform movement: Ruskin, William Morris
The nature conservation movement
The twentieth century: World War, total devastation, the rise of the environmental movement
5. The post-war period and the rise of ecological consciousness
Silent spring and the Earthrise: the "first wave" of environmentalism
Philosophical background to green politics: deep ecology, Arne Naess, Aldo Leopold, Heidegger/enframing
The late 1970s and 1980s: the concept of sustainability; the rise of neo-liberalism
Global warming or climate change
The backlash: the rise of denialism
Our growing estrangement from the natural world
Rewilding
6. Wider attitudes to environment
Islam, Persia
Sufi poetry
Zoroastrianism
Taoism
Buddhism
Wabi-sabi
Hinduism and Jainism
Egypt
Yoruba
San
Pre-Columbian and Native American cultures' attitudes to environment
Australasia
Conclusion
7. The slow evolution of environmental ethics
Aristotelian ethics
New Testament environmental ethics
Saint Francis of Assisi
Spinoza
Kant
Self and Other: Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas
Hegel
Merleau-Pnty
Levinas: responsibility for the Other
Pope Francis: Laudato Si
The globalization of ethics
Intra- and inter-generational justice
The ethics of discounting
Beyond legality and instrumentality
Speciesism: Peter Singer
Animal rights
Conclusion
8. A short history of Earth Observation
The earliest times; Balloons; Aerial photography
The first satellites
The global weather experiment
From metsats to Earth Observation
EUMETSAT
Enter the EU: towards GMES/Copernicus
Baveno and Kyoto
European responsibility
Values and principles
International co-operation: GEO and GEOSS
Conclusion
9. The resistances
The "merchants of doubt" thesis
"Big tobacco"'s attempt to undermine the link between tobacco-smoking and cancer
Science and uncertainty
Acid rain and ozone
Global warming
The concept of journalistic balance
Cultural resistance
Julian Simon and Cornucopianism
Psychological resistances
Denial
Science and advocacy
Science and rhetoric
Reversal of the burden of proof
Should Copernicus be neutral?
How EO can help
10. The aesthetic potential of Earth Observation
Earth Observation and remote sensing
An aesthetic history of lunar and Earth Observation
Different art-forms and media
Earthrise
Joseph Cornell's collages observations of satellite and weather satellites
The power of images and poetry
World War One poets
Eco-poetry, land art
Pop music
Dramatic potential: Phylae and the story of Envisat
Emotional connection
Psychoanalysis and emotional connection
Conclusion: implications for communication
11. EO for whom? Towards an environmental democracy
Competing ideas of science and environment
EO as market failure; The limits of market thinking
The Precautionary Principle
Citizen science and citizen involvement
Towards an environmental democracy
What is environmental democracy?
Environmental democracy as green governance 12. Conclusion : Earth Observation and the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene and adaptation
Geoengineering
The Anthropocene, Earth Observation and human responsibility
The migration crisis
Earth Observation and the UN sustainable
Development goals
Epilogue.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
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