Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation

• Main Author: Eyres, Harry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Climate change.; Cosmology.; Nature.; Environment.; Environmental sciences > Philosophy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Environmental Philosophy.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

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 par...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Cosmology and astronomy from pre-history to the Roman Empire
• Aquinas to Newton
• The Enlightenment, the Romantic Rebellion, the Industrial Age, the nature conservation movement and total war
• The post-war period and the rise of ecological consciousness
• Non-western cultures' attitudes to environment
• The ethical dimension: the slow evolution of environmental ethics
• A short history of earth observation
• The resistances
• The aesthetic dimension
• Earth observation for whom? Towards an environmental democracy
• Conclusion
• Epilogue.