More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics
"We live in a world of rapid, irreversible environmental change. The interplay of fire, life, atmosphere and land now constrain and propel humanity’s destiny. How have we arrived at this situation? Jeremy Walker presents a fascinating, insight
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More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics “It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.” —Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859 “One recognizes that there is a first agent in matter by which everything is executed in nature, which moves everything, which is the cause of all generation and all destruction; it is a fire, a matter aetherial or subtle, extremely active, which has the property of all the movement which animates the universe; it is an immense sea which contains all the sensible bodies, which it intimately penetrates and through which it works all the changes which happen.” —François Quesnay, Essai Physique sur l’Oeconomie Animale, 1747 “Machine n. apparatus in which the action of several parts is combined for the applying of mechanical force to a purpose; person like a machine in regularity or insensibility; controlling organisation in politics.” —Shorter Oxford Dictionary
Jeremy Walker
More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics
Jeremy Walker Climate Justice Research Centre Social & Political Sciences, School of Communication Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Broadway, NSW, Australia
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