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Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World Paperback – June 26, 2012
For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind’s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in our disharmony with nature. In the vein of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and Van Jones’ Green Collar Economy, Prince Charles presents the compelling case that solutions to our most dire crises—from climate change to poverty—lie in regaining a balance with the world around us.
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication dateJune 26, 2012
- Dimensions7.07 x 1.11 x 9.37 inches
- ISBN-100061731358
- ISBN-13978-0061731358
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HRH The Prince of Wales reveals how the solutions to our most pressing modern challenges, from climate change to poverty, can only be found in regaining a balance with nature.
For decades, The Prince of Wales has studied a wide array of disciplines in his quest to understand how modern industrialization has led us to a state of disharmony with the world around us and pushed us to the very brink of disaster. Now, Prince Charles shows how we can effectively combat such global crises as climate change and poverty by not only relying upon technology but also by changing the way we view the modern world.
With its holistic approach, this provocative and well-reasoned book takes the discussion of sustainability and climate change in a new direction, incorporating the traditional wisdom of our past with the modern science of our present to create a new vision for our world. Illustrated with vivid photographs and charts, this intelligent, practical, and illuminating guide is not only a call to arms in defense of our future but also a powerful weapon in the battle to save our planet.
About the Author
The Prince of Wales has used his unique position to make a difference throughout the world, establishing numerous charities and public interests, and organizing The Prince's Rainforests Project to combat deforestation and global warming.
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- Publisher : Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0061731358
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061731358
- Item Weight : 2.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.07 x 1.11 x 9.37 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,206,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,083 in Ecology (Books)
- #5,371 in Environmental Science (Books)
- #5,746 in Environmentalism
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It is about our environment and the tell tale signs of how damaged it is, why and how it got this way and what we can all do about it. He speaks of "modernism" and the human races' shunning of its bond to nature and how this is unnatural to us and how shunning nature affects us. He briefly covers many subjects, many people do not realize what aspects of our lives that the environment and nature affect. He talks about Nature and its relation to health, healing, communities, crime, behavioral health, food, architecture, religion, math, etc. (The first two chapters are not for the faint of heart, however just like getting over a bad habit, you to admit you have it in order to start recovery so don't lose heart!)
I like the middle chapters; the history (and culture) of how before medieval times we all "lived off the land", how we got here stiffed with our current attitudes and about the Catholic churches involvement.
I shun "modernity" myself, I have felt this way a long time and frankly, I think it was great of Prince Charles to put it in black and white for people that think and feel like I do (a huge impact on people, today-a must read!). He is a very intelligent man, very in tune to all things around him, eloquent and also some humor here and there. The environment and nature touches our lives in so many aspects(aside from the current and immediate dangers), he brings this all together in one very well thought out/laid out book.
A definite addition to my activist library. I bought one for myself and 6 (so far) for friends, family and associates. It's that good and the message is that important! You will feel enlightened by the time you are at the end of the book. Enjoy!
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who cares deeply about the future of our planet and who wants to get back in touch with their own higher insights and sensibilities.
"Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World" speaks to all of us, but addresses a number of audiences in particular: civic and environmental leaders, city planners, architects, farmers, scientists, government leaders and officials, artists, craftspeople, builders, 'green' industry innovators and leaders, students, etc.
It could be used as recommended reading, or even perhaps a text, for courses in environmental studies, sustainable agriculture, art history, geography, architecture, urban, regional, and transportation planning and other subject areas.
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É fantástico ter acesso à mente de Charles III, ainda como príncipe de Gales. Aprendi muito lendo este livro. Sua majestade não só aponta os problemas ambientais, ele apresenta soluções que vão deste produção de alimentos de forma menos agressiva, orgânica, até traços de um novo sistema econômico ou a evolução do atual de forma a respeitar os limites de capacidade do planeta. É impressionante.
R. Bruce Stock
Harmony is therefore a superb book, for you get the good taste of it long after you have finished it.I laud king Charles for his inimitable contribution.
N.Negi,an English Prof, author of the book Publicly Speak Ecology( see Amazon ;a foreword by king Charles to it is solicited.) and a Youtuber with the channel, Environment and public speaking.
email: profnnegi@gmail.com
The depth of learning on which his words are based is extraordinary, and I know this because he follows quite uncannilly my own. He brings up many issues I have, quotes the exact verses I have, and tries to help move us forward in ways I haven't yet got to grips with.
I know his basis in philosophy will make a lot wince, but I know what he says is true; it is the very path I started along myself. Since we appear to have walked the same road and come to the same conclusions, there must be something born of right thought in it.
His explanation of the lost ecological essence of the major religions is remarkable to me since I have struggled with the paradox of how far religion has moved away from our Source, the Earth. It is indeed this fracture that has made us believe we are masters of the planet. Man cannot create one blade of grass! We are made up of the rocks and minerals, the air, water, and bacteria of this planet - we are part of it, and it is all of us. We do not exist without it, we are One.
He has done a very remarkable and brave job of pulling the threads together. I agree entirely that we must control ourselves - our population size - or we will go beyond the Earth's willingness to sustain us. This is critical; solving our insane lack of selfcontrol, and sealing the rift between knowledge and knowing, selfishness and community, human and all else, is vital.
Science is a mode of enquiry and it has given us much, but it is only that. There is much that we do not know, much that we never will. We are viewing the world through a letterbox and it's about time we got a much wider holistic outlook whilst there is still beauty to be dreamed.