Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Congratulations, Dougald! Happy to see this.

Expand full comment
Roselle Angwin's avatar

I will be ordering it, Dougald. I don't quite know how the book passed me by. I hope you have the sales you deserve. Of course, I agree with everything you say in this post.

As I age, I'm beginning to throw all my weight in all my work – writing and courses, and how I live – behind the idea that transformation of the way we see the rest of the natural world, as you suggest, is key. I've just written a post ('Of mice') on how we tend, at least in Western post-Enlightenment (so-called) thinking, to see all other species as either a resource or a pest, and either way our attitude is extractive. This is surely how we destroy the web of life, and therefore make all other forms of human destruction if not actually inevitable, at least much more likely.

Bring back the view of the world as sacred, I say; whatever that might mean in our age.

Anyway, thank you for what you do.

A completely different tack, and perhaps you address it elsewhere: I'm pleased that, now that bookshop.org has gone, Blackwell's in the UK offer free shipping (apart from taxes) all over the world. And they're not Amazon.

Expand full comment
7 more comments...

No posts