Preserving Planet Earth: Changing Human Culture with Lessons from the Past [Hardcover]

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

This book encourages readers to acknowledge humanitys contribution to the environmental crisis, proposing a way forward by exploring the power of ordinary people to bring about cultural change.?It will appeal to students and teachers as well as general readers interested in environmental studies, philosophy, and education.

This book encourages readers to acknowledge humanitys contribution to the environmental crisis, proposing a way forward by exploring the power of ordinary people to bring about large-scale cultural change.

Is it possible for humankind to change its ways and shed the belief that the planet is ours to do with as we like? Internationally acclaimed philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin argues that humancentrism is a learned affair, and what is learned can be unlearned. Turning to the past to see how large-scale cultural change has occurred, she discovers a pattern in the achievements of such hislC2