A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature
relationship and a pathto a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst
all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world-smartphones, fast
intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked
refrigerators-lies an unnerving fact that may be even more disturbing
than all the environmental and social costs of our lifestyles.The
fragmentations of our modern lives, our disconnections from nature and
from the consequences of our actions, make it difficult to follow our
own values and ethics, sowecan no longer be truly ethical beings. When
we buy a computer or a hamburger, our impacts ripple across the globe,
and, dissociated from them, we can't quite respond. Our personal and
professional choices result in damages ranging from radioactive
landscapes to disappearing rainforests, but we can't quite see how.
Environmental scholar Kenneth Worthytraces the broken pathways between
consumers and clean-room worker illnesses, superfund sites in Silicon
Valley, and massively contaminated landscapes in rural Asian villages.
Hisgroundbreaking, psychologically based explanation confirms that our
disconnections make us more destructive and that we must bear witness to
nature and our consequences.Invisible Natureshows the way forward: how
we can create more involvement in our own food production, more
education about how goods are produced and waste is disposed, more
direct and deliberative democracy, and greater contact with the nature
that sustains us.
