Ariadne’s Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking

by Mary E. Clark

Preface - PART Nature's 'What are the Limits to Growth?' - The A Search for Values - Energy and Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental Charge Account Comes Due - PART The Human 'What is Human Nature?' - The Emergence of Human Nature - The Cultural Spectrum - Religion and Worldviews - On Acquiring a Worldview - PART Possessive 'Whence Comes This Western Worldview?' - From God to Origins of the Western Worldview - The Cult of Efficiency - Alienation - The Loss of the Sacred - PART New Modes of 'Where Do We Begin?' - Rethinking Economics - Defusing the Global Powder Keg - Worldviews in Action - Nuclear 'Defence' - or Conflict Resolution? - Humankind at the Crossroads - Notes - Index

612 pages, Hardcover

First published July 24, 1989

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would recommend skipping the first half of the book and proceeding directly to "the human animal" section. The first part is dated and familiar territory to anyone with basic environmental awareness, and if not, there are better, more recent writings on the topic. The second part on cultural assumptions is very vaulable and somewhat timeless. A particularly potent anitidote for dominant western cultural attitudes about human nature.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Topical.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

An environmental awareness must-have.