After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination

by Kirkpatrick Sale

Book Overview

When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339382
• ISBN13: 9780822339380
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"