PD Smith

Being Ecological

20 January 2018 | Eco, Guardian, Reviewing, Science | Post a comment

I’ve just reviewed Tim­o­thy Mor­ton’s Being Eco­log­i­cal for the Guardian. It’s the first of a reg­u­lar series of non-fic­tion reviews I’ll be doing for the new-look Review sec­tion. I’ll also be review­ing paper­backs as usu­al, so there will be plen­ty of fas­ci­nat­ing non-fic­tion titles to choose from in 2018. Hap­py read­ing!

Mor­ton’s book is full of remark­able insights and ideas — it’s a bril­liant and only occa­sion­al­ly Del­ph­ic dis­play of intel­lec­tu­al pyrotech­nics. He doesn’t offer a plan to make soci­ety more envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly: “the idea of sus­tain­abil­i­ty implies that the sys­tem we now have is worth sus­tain­ing”.

Instead, in what is an inspir­ing­ly ide­al­is­tic book, he wants a par­a­digm shift in our rela­tion­ship to the world and for us all to live the idea that we are “a sym­bi­ot­ic being entan­gled with oth­er sym­bi­ot­ic beings”.

Read the full review here.

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