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...