1st Edition
Preserving Planet Earth Changing Human Culture with Lessons from the Past
Introduction
Part 1: History Lessons
1. The Martin Luther Story
2. The Greta Thunberg Story
3. The Mahatma Gandhi Story
4. The Rosa Parks Story
Part 2: A Looming Tragedy
5. The Dreadful Deed: Matricide
6. The Fatal Flaw: Hubris
7. The Denial: Six Varieties
8. The Present-Day Chorus
9. The Unraveling
Part 3: Can We Change Human Culture and Ourselves?
10. Yes, We Can
11. Is Human Nature Humancentric?
12. Prepared and Counter-Prepared Learning
13. Becoming a New Person
14. Individual Learning and Cultural Change
Part 4: Wage Education Not War
15. Close the Knowing/Doing Gap
16. Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway?
17. Facts Are Not Enough
18. What Do We Do With Miseducation When We Find It?
19. Amplify and Converge
Part 5: Goodbye Hubris, Hello ENVIRONMENTALITY
20. Needed: A Paradigm Shift
21. Expanding the Definition of “We”
22. Doing Something Rather Than Nothing
23. Acting as One
Biography
Jane Roland Martin is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts in Boston with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, the Radcliffe Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. She also received the John Dewey Society's 2013 Outstanding Career Achievement Award.
"A novel and fascinating look at the crisis of our lives and the possibility of doing something useful even at this late date. This collage of ideas, insights and historical analogies will make you think, which is what we need."
Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature
"Preserving Planet Earth is a testament to the importance of ongoing discourse across diverse communities and insights. Whenever we can engage new voices and constituencies, and empower informed stewardship, we create a new moment for achievement of bold conservation outcomes.”
Paula J. Ehrlich, President & CEO, E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
