000			01299nam a22001577a 4500
008			211112b2020 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781788161992
082			_a113 LEV-A
100			_aLevinovitz, Alan
245			_aNatural : _bthe seductive myth of nature's goodness / _cAlan Levinovitz
260			_aLondon _bProfile Books _c2020
300			_a252 p.
365			_aINR _b499.00.
500			_aA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make terrible sacrifices in its name: of our money, our health, and our planet. That deity is nature itself. From supermarket shoppers to evolutionary biologists, from atheists to pastors, from Alex Jones to Gwyneth Paltrow, we are all prone to the intuitive faith that life should be lived 'naturally'. But nature can't teach us how to live. If we try to stick to its imagined commands, eschewing human artifice in pursuit of Edenic purity, we jeopardise the environment, our health, and our society. (We also waste a lot of money on pots of weird slime). It is time to accept our profound responsibility to shape the world of which our technology and ourselves are wholly apart.
650			_aPhilosophy of nature
999			_c69151 _d69151