Thoreau and Me Paperback / softback
by Cedric Taling
Paperback / softback
Description
Some heavy reading on the ecological and climate emergency leads Cédric, a forty-something painter living in Paris, to question his life choices.
In a state of vulnerability, racked with eco-anxiety, he is contacted by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau: writer, environmentalist and the author of Walden. Two centuries separate Cédric from the author who, depressed by the narrow materialism of industrialised America, retreated to a single-room cabin in the woods by Walden Pond.
But as their Socratic dialogue continues, Cédric notices striking parallels between the suffocating commercialism of mid-19th-century America and the unsustainable, alienating, tech-driven consumerism of today.
Both societies are shaped by a single priority — economic growth — that not only squanders the earth’s resources but separates human beings from nature.
Inspired by Thoreau’s return to nature, Cédric begins dreaming of his own retreat from urban life: his own self-sufficient cabin in the woods.
In Thoreau and Me, Cédric Taling explores the causes and consequences of today’s climate emergency.
Blending humour, philosophy and fiction, Taling asks how, at a time of unprecedented ecological and climate breakdown, we can learn to live with and respond to eco-anxiety.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:SelfMadeHero
- Publication Date:05/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781910593837
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:SelfMadeHero
- Publication Date:05/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781910593837
