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Title: Invisible Walls: Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet--And Ourselves by Peter Seidel, Ervin Laszlo ISBN: 157392217X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6
Rating: 5
Summary: Enlightening thinking on the human-environment relationships
Comment: Peter Seidel's refreshing thinking on the human-environment relationships makes the 'invisible walls' that block up our way to a sustainable world visible. These 'walls' are the limits of our brain in learning the environment, the ways we have conventionally thought about and treated the nature, and the structures in which our societies have been organized. In addition to warning us the existance and the threats of the 'walls', Seidel offers us solutions to overcome the 'walls' emphasizing the importance of the responsible actions of individuals, social groups, and governments. The Invisible Walls is an excellent book with full of insights. I highly recommend it. The book should also be made available in other languages, given the global scope of the issue discussed.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the most profound book I have read in many years
Comment: Seidel gives in this book a fantatic account of so many things about which most of us have read, heard or thought ourselves, but said in an incredible lucid style, which is easy and precise at the same time. However, despite the easy syntax and style, this is an extremely profound book. It deals with our intrinsic limitations, that come from evolutionary biology, and from psychology. That alone would make reading it worthwhile. Then it goes on to analyze the limitations we have because we live in organized societies, and how we may indulge in "group thinking". Indeed, it's easier to go along with the crowd; thinking differently requires a lot of intellectual courage. If we choose to do so, we must be prepared many times to withstand criticism, rejection, discrimination and even attacks. However, it is worth it! The book then moves to an analysis of our organizations. It is specially important to note how and to what extent we are being constantly indoctrinated, for commercial and political purposes, and how irrational we may all become as a result. Finally, he offers "solutions". The quote marks are not intended to mean that his proposals are wrong, very much to the contrary. They mean that, at least I myself, am tremendously skeptical that they will ever be implemented. The reason for that lies in ourselves, but to an even larger extent, in the "powers that be", determined to maintain the status quo at all costs. However, I am recommending the book to everybody I care about, and even buying new copies to give to the people I love most. I recommend it without reservations!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A REFRESHING, INSIGHTFUL VIEW ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Comment: Peter Seidel has distilled down incredibly complex environmental and political problems into a concise, masterful work in Invisible Walls. This book analyzes the political, socioeconomic and PSYCHOLOGICAL context in which the fast pace of environmental change is now occuring. Seidel faces the problems head on and tackles them in a novel way with vigor and sophistication. It makes you, as the reader, reflect on the very grounds for your attitudes towards the world that are so easily taken for granted and rarely self-assessed. This is no alarmist book. Yes, it points out many challenges and warning signs and problems in the world today. But we MUST grapple with the problems. Best of all, Seidel offers SOLUTIONS. This is most refreshing! It lifts us from a despair about the environment and the world and motivates us to take whatever steps we are each in our own way empowered to take. I agree with Seidel in the need for civic responsibility and political activism. As an environmental lawyer and biologist in my 20s, I plan on spreading the word about this book to all my friends. The narrative, first-person style makes Invisible Walls easy to read and I highly recommend it. It'll make you see the world anew.
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Title: Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor, David Horsey, Scott Simon, John De Graaf ISBN: 1576751996 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser ISBN: 0060938455 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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