I read Jared Diamond's Collapse, and I felt its message that the so-called conflict between "development" and the environment is a false one, so relevant to our times. Diamond gives examples of socities that have lived next to each other and shows how the ones that respected nature were the ones that prospered. A poignant question he asks about the environment disaster in Easter Island is, "What was the man who cut down the last tree on Easter Island thinking?" I am afraid we are not too far away from asking that question ourselves.
Venky On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some books I enjoyed: > > - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison - Michel Foucault > - The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, > East and West by Aldous Huxley > - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius > - Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis > >
