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| The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature | 
 enlarge | Authors: David T. Suzuki, Amanda Mcconnell
Publisher: Bantam Books
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 751504
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
ISBN: 0553812734
EAN: 9780553812732
ASIN: 0553812734
Publication Date: September 2, 1999
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Condition: Appears unread. Few marks on page edges.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Sat somewhere on that uneasy continuum between commonplace book and New Scientist magazine article, David Suzuki's The Sacred Balance disguises its serious intent behind the tricksiness of its presentation. But the aggregate effect of its box- outs, pull-quotes and sub-headings is undeniably powerful: a many-pronged effort to stake out some common ethical ground between the increasingly polarised worlds of environmentalism and big business. Suzuki's diagnosis of the late Capitalist condition is one in which our adaptive behaviours have become dangerously divorced from the environmental conditions in which they evolved. "The definitions of 'cost' and 'benefit' have changed", Suzuki writes. "Whereas in the past the most important factor was the long-term survival or well-being of the family or group, today decisions are made based on the implications for a company, job, market share or profit. So we assess costs and benefits within a very different framework of values, ignoring, for example, the health of the community or ecosystem. We have gotten out of the habit of thinking about things that really matter to us ... The Sacred Balance is an eloquent expression of the general yearning for a closer connection to our planet--the kind of ill-understood urge that makes more people visit zoos than attend all major sports events combined. "Through us [the world] becomes conscious", writes Suzuki's co-author Amanda McConnell. This book is a timely reminder of that simple and revolutionary fact. --Simon Ings
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The earth and it survival in easy understandable terms July 12, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I recommend all of humanity to read this as it tells you how in simple terms the way the world ticks. If we are the caretakers of this planet and all that lives on it. We should start to honour it and it will sustain our lives longer and the animal and plant life of this planet as well. Economics is not the answer only the will of each and everyone to establish compassion for our world will it become sustainable.
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