Natural The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness

A 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 our selves are wholly a part.

Info autore

Alan Levinovitz

Riassunto

Why arguments based on what is 'natural', in food, medicine, and society at large, are appeals to a false idol - our oldest, most persistent superstition.

Prefazione

Why arguments based on what is 'natural', in food, medicine, and society at large, are appeals to a false idol - our oldest, most persistent superstition

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alan Levinovitz, Levinovitz Alan
• Editore: Profile Books
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.04.2021
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Natura; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia
• EAN: 9781788161992
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-199-2
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.6 cm
• Categorie: Paleo, food, Raw, Nature, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Health, Religion and beliefs, Philosophy and Religion, clean living, Alan Levinovitz