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Laddar... The Nation of Plantsav Stefano Mancuso
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The gimmick Mancuso uses to structure the book (i.e., the Nation of Plants addresses the UN and offers its constitution as an example humans should follow), in my opinion, reduces the seriousness of its message. Nonetheless, there are plenty of interesting scientific facts and intriguing opinions in this brief volume. Still, I don't know what audience I would recommend it to. ( ) I do not know why it is that Italian Scientists can take very complex ideas and boil them down into simple stories that everyone can understand. The translator should also be commended as the authors wry humor show through, In this fairy slim volume the author manages to convey the concepts of climate change, what climate change means for both humans as well as other species on the planet and the role that plants play in the 'web' of life. Both sound scientifically and entertaining, a rare combination in a science book written for the general public. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"A leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants-and by extension humans-rests in this playful yet eye-opening guidebook. Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about 300,000 years ago-nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet-humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their own survival. The causes of this reckless behavior are in part inherent in their predatory nature, but they also depend on our total incomprehension of the rules that govern the existence of a community of living beings. The last to arrive on the planet, we behave like children who wreak havoc, unaware of the value and significance of the things they are playing with. In The Nation of Plants, the most important, widespread, and powerful nation on Earth finally gets to speak. Like attentive parents, plants, after making it possible for us to live, have come to our aid once again, giving us their rules: this is the first Charter of Rights of Living Beings written by the plants. A short constitution based on the general principles that regulate the common life of plants, it establishes norms applicable to all living beings. Compared to our constitutions, which place humans at the center of the entire juridical reality, in conformity with an anthropocentricism that reduces to things all that is not human, plants offer us a revolution"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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