The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis 外文翻译.pdf

The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis The history of ecologic change is still so rudimentary that we know Lynn White, Jr. little about what really happened, or what the results were. The extinction of the European aurochs as late as 1627 would seem to have been a simple case of overenthusiastic hunting. On more intricate matters it often is impossible to find solid information. For a thousand years or more the A conversation with Aldous Huxley not infrequently put one at the Frisians and Hollanders have been pushing back the North Sea, and the receiving end of an unforgettable monologue. About a year before his process is culminating in our own time in the reclamation of the Zuider Zee. lamented death he was discoursing on a favorite topic: Mans unnatural What, if any, species of animals, bird s, fish, shore life, or plants have died treatment of nature and its sad results. To illustrate his point he told how, out in the process? In their epic combat with Neptune have the during the previous summer, he had returned to a little valley in England Netherlanders overlooked ecological values in su