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Invisible Walls - by  Peter Seidel (Hardcover) - 1 of 1

Invisible Walls - by Peter Seidel (Hardcover)

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  • Our wants for food, housing, medicine, transportation, luxuries, and all the other benefits of industrialization have resulted in the exploitation of our natural surroundings.
  • About the Author: Peter Seidel is an environmental architect/planner with wide-ranging interests who studied with world-renowned Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe and city planner Ludwig Hilberseimer.
  • 334 Pages
  • Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection

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Why are we blind to the daily assaults we make on our environment? Author Peter Seidel argues that if we are to take responsible action to save the Earth and ourselves, we must look at how we evolved as a species, our concepts of the world and how we fit into it, the beliefs we hold, the social structures we create, and the ethical views that divide us from each other and the natural world.



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Our wants for food, housing, medicine, transportation, luxuries, and all the other benefits of industrialization have resulted in the exploitation of our natural surroundings. We know our actions affect the physical world we depend on, so why must we be faced with catastrophic problems--overpopulation, the loss of bio-diversity, global warming, and the like--before we act to protect the planet's ecosystem--and then often inadequately?
With astute analysis Peter Seidel explores the complex convergence of psychological, social, economic, and political factors that keep us from acting in our own self-interest. An environmental and human relations visionary, Seidel proposes adoption of a new "world model," a "universal ethic," and long-term societal goals.
Educators and journalists must give us a better understanding of ourselves-creatures evolved to function in a hunter-gatherer society, not in the complex, hazardous world we have created. We must learn to use our minds to control our primitive drives rather than to satisfy them.



About the Author



Peter Seidel is an environmental architect/planner with wide-ranging interests who studied with world-renowned Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe and city planner Ludwig Hilberseimer. He is the author of Invisible Walls and 2045: A Story of Our Future.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.32 Inches (H) x 6.29 Inches (W) x 1.24 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.27 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 334
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: Environmental Conservation & Protection
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Peter Seidel
Language: English
Street Date: June 1, 1998
TCIN: 1009226167
UPC: 9781573922173
Item Number (DPCI): 247-21-3792
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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