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Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | with apathy, and unconsciously decided not to react to the crisis at all. At the same time, everyone we meet is has some concern and appreciation for at least part of the environment. How does this split in our thinking persist? Our society has grown so used to taking the world for granted that we can neither be shocked nor shamed into doing anything about the ecological crisis because we are inundated with other more shocking news every day and we have made the decision that we will continue to exist without paying attention to the evidence before our eyes. This decision, expressed by psychologist Harold Searles, gave Nicholsen the idea for the book. Our decision, Nicholsen wants us to know, is wrong and a denial of the evidence we can see as well as denying North American Native wisdom, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism among other teachings of the ages. Artists, philosophers, and teachers of nature all give evidence of what we are missing, and what we are destroying, but we do not respond because we have already made up our minds not to take the wisdom into account. The book recognizes that our relationship with our world is destructive and has always been so, from the moment when we began to kill wildlife and uproot plants to nourish ourselves. However, killing and uprooting are only the beginning and not the end of our relationship with our world as we know, but could well become the fulfilment and fate of the world if we cannot see beyond incidentals. This book is an opportunity to see beyond where we are, which direction we seem to be going and an invitation to visit the wisdom of the ages. The sages teach us that the progress of nature does not despair of the possibilities of the future and neither should we. Nicholsen shows us a bleak path of destruction, but with the thread of hope that nature itself interpreted by writers past and present can lead us back to a positive relationship with the world in which we live. JIM O’NEILL |
| Starting Page | 1051 |
| Ending Page | 1051 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 86 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/download/174/174 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542%25282005%2529086%255B1051%253ASBHPHP%255D2.0.CO%253B2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
