Michael Charles Tobias Livres

This groundbreaking work by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists explores a new frontier in applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through concise and elegant prose, readers will discover that our connections with other species and ecosystems are critically endangered due to a lack of coherence stemming from our evolutionary self-confidence. The authors argue that what humanity considers superiority is based on a fragile premise that could lead to our self-destruction. They present a unique proposition: we must acknowledge the miracle of other sentient intelligences or risk creating the briefest epitaph for any vertebrate in Earth’s 4.1 billion-year history. Drawing on 45 years of research across various fields, including ecological anthropology, animal protection, and comparative ethics, the authors incorporate insights from animal and plant behavior and biocultural heritage from around the globe. Their deeply metaphysical perspectives distinguish this work from others in animal rights, ecological aesthetics, and traditional behavioral studies, while still appealing to readers interested in those areas. This provocative text, rich in philosophical premises and hypotheses, is poised to incite discussion and unease for many years to come.

Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in over 80 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people - deeply in love with one another - can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others - of all species.

The Misadventures of Pinocchio is a libretto. This work breathes pleasure, invokes a sense of such radical fun — from Italian politics to animal rights — as to beg the issue of an opera, for which it was written. Also included in this work is a brilliant Afterword by the author.Writes author Michael “What I will tell you is that Pinocchio’s ‘Adventures’ in this Libretto have been re-examined in light of Tuscany’s history, and the current state of the world. Such that, without giving away too much, I would add that I have sought to give Collodi’s Pinocchio his own dignity, his roots, to take him back to the original landscape where he was born, both as an ideal, but also as a reality in a world where trees, let alone pine nuts, are disappearing rapidly. …“Pinocchio is one of those charter members, a veritable signatory to a Declaration of Biological Rights; not only of the plant community in his native land, but of humanity’s future place in a world at risk, where common sense, imagination, an unstinting love of life, not to mention a sense of humor are worth their weight – not in gold – but in old forest, healthy soils, rich biomass, a dazzling, unchallenged array of plant and animal life, clean air and plenty of fresh water to drink. These are, after all, the real concerns of any pine nut, let alone the Pinocchio kind. ...

Michael Charles Tobias - in this colossal comic novel of 625,000 words - has given us a masterpiece of insight about our lives and troubled times. Through his idealistic hero Murillo Marigold and his earthy sidekick Sannazaro, Tobias meditates on everything that matters: poetry, art, philosophy, alternative technologies, environmentalism, human wrongs, animal rights, sustainable living, and utopias future and past. And what style! Passage after passage of inspired prose, from a mind on fire that sees every moment and encounter as hilarious, holy, and unique. The heart of the book is the author's deeply personal sublime vision: the sacredness of all living beings, the reverence for life, the passionate commitment to social and environmental change. This enormous, challenging beatific vision that reminds us who we are - and points the way to what the new world could one day be - makes Mr Marigold a modern classic, at once entertaining, nourishing, revolutionary, and profoundly wise.

"The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution" by Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison offers a thought-provoking exploration of human evolution, blending science and humanities. It challenges notions of human superiority, examining our ecological and psychological state while presenting nearly 200 illustrations. A foreword by Dr. Melanie DeVore enhances its significance.

Petrus van Stijn's world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms - protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change wreaking unprecedented, but predictable collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves.

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological and from an insular perspective, successful struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Those metrics are examined from numerous multidisciplinary approaches in this thoroughly original work, which aids readers, particularly natural history students, who aspire to grasp the far-reaching dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects every facet of human experience, past, present and future, and the rest of planetary sentience. With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie, President of the non-profit, Population Communication

How can the one influence the many? From posing seminal questions about what comprises a human individual, to asking whether human evolution is alive and well, favoring individuals or the species, this work is a daring, up-to-the-minute overview of an urgent, multidisciplinary premise. It explores the extent to which human history provides empirical evidence for the capacity of an individual to exert meaningful suasion over their species, and asks: Can an individual influence the survival of the human species and the planet? If there are to be cultures of transformation dedicated to seeing us all through the Sixth Extinction Spasm, the Anthropocene, inflicting as little biological havoc as possible, what might such orientations-a collective, widespread biophilia, or reverence for nature-look like? In this powerful work, with a combination of data and direct observation, the authors invite readers to explore how such transformations might resonate throughout the human community; in what ways a person might overcome the seemingly insurmountable environmental tumult our species has unleashed; the clear and salient motives, ethics, aspirations and pragmatic idealism he/she might mirror and embrace in order to effect a profound difference-at the individual level-for all of life and life's myriad habitats. Chapters illuminate an ambitiously broad digest of research from two-dozen disciplines. Those include ecodynamics, biosemiotics, neural plasticity, anthropology, paleontology and the history of science, among others. All converge upon a set of ethics-based scenarios for mitigating ecological damage to ourselves and other life forms. This highly readable and tightly woven treatise speaks to scientists, students and all those who are concerned about ethical activism and the future of the biosphere. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are ecological philosophers and animal liberation activists who have worked for decades to help enrich our understanding of ecosystem dynamics and humanity's ambiguous presence amid that great orchestra that is nature

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Explore shattering ethical, political and practical quagmires in this gripping ecological thriller. A tense plot deals with devastating scientific, secret intelligence and geopolitical issues. “You alright, Professor?” Mal asked in a whisper. “Yeah, I’ll be alright.” World renowned ecologist, UCLA Professor David Lev, aged 84, has just begun a contemporary odyssey. From delivering a plenary address on climate change at the Rio+20 UN Summit, he must prevail on a journey through sub-zero hurricane-force gales, impenetrable bogs and twelve foot drifts of ice in the forests of Belarus. Along the way, Lev’s journey directs us to consider such profound questions as: Are we our Brother’s Keeper? What are the ethical limits of science? And, finally, at what price, glory? It is not only Lev’s story that is the key to this page-turner but also an account from the days of World War IIand the Holocaust, which hinges on survival. A constellation of richly nuanced, deeply drawn characters whose enmeshed lives and unique circumstances speak with resonance, melancholy, inspiration and unrelenting drama are all part of this complex and thought-provoking novel - including cutting-edge biochemist Dr Taman Chernichevsky. What has he discovered?