Review “Over Development Over Population Over Shoot”
“Over Development Over Population Over Shoot” edited by Tom Butler is one fantastic, but terrifying book.
But first a word on the physical book itself. The book weighs in at 6.8 pounds. It is 13.5 inches by 12.5 inches by 1.3 inches. It has 330 pages. There are less than 10 pages full of text. Nearly ever page is an edge to edge image of unimaginable excellence. The book is printed and distributed by
Goff Books. It is copyrighted by The Foundation for Deep Ecology. Both The Population Media Center and The Population Institute have their name on the cover. In the world of beautiful books, this is a very, very beautiful book. It was printed in China on paper from “sustainability managed forests.” Amazon sells it for under $40. Most art books of this quality go for well over $100.
The introduction, by Musimbi Kanyono and the Afterword by Eileen Crist are wonderful essays on the dangers of continuing on our path of overpopulating the Earth to unsustainable levels, both for us and for the rest of the ecological net that we are destroying. Their cry is for us to decrease our human population to less than 2 billion by birth control through, not coercion, but education of everyone, but especially the women and girls. Much is made of the patriarchal, military, fundamentalists, capitalistic, self centered ways of modern man driving the destructive forces.
The Parable of “Lord Man” has two endings. It begins with the lush Earth, continues with the onset of man living in accord with the Old Religions that taught of living with the Earth as a member of the society of animals, plants, soils and rocks. Then the parable has two endings. The first is the “Sixth Extinction” in which man drives the Earth into erasing us and lots of other species. The second is the happy days of living again with the Earth, sharing and rejoicing in its resources. The choice of which ending actually happens is ours to make.
The vast majority of the book is beautiful photographs of ugliness. Here are crowds of people, masses of hovels, dead animals, garbage and waste piles, people and animals living in garbage, close ups of animal factories all accompanied by pertinent quotes. The second ending of the Parable comes before the afterward and has beautiful images of happy people living as one with the other members of the Society of Earth. The book far outdoes Al Gore's book in impact.
In leafing through the pages, one either rejects the entire premise, or one is made quiet, made to feel a little dirty, a little guilty, and a little ashamed. But the message is very clear. Either we change our ways and then enjoy a renewed Earth, or we die in the Sixth Extinction.
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WE LIVE IN TWO WORLDS - LET'S NOT DESTROY THE ONE THAT CAN'T BE REPLACED!
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2015
I don't even remember how I became aware of this book. Maybe it was by an email from a friend, or by a Facebook posting. However, I did become aware of it, and I am very happy it came to my attention. The book is spectacular. It is food for thought! It is an incitement to do better by doing less: eating less, consuming less; populating less!Even more than this book, I applaud the campaign by Global Population Speakout of which the book is the centerpiece. You can join the campaign at https://populationspeakout.org/. We all need to join the campaign! Read Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot and you'll definitely want to join the campaign. Recommend this book to your friends!I write a blog, titled Two Worlds (www.gapatton.net). My daily postings are premised on the idea that we live, actually, in two worlds simultaneously. Ultimately, we inhabit the World of Nature, upon which all life depends. This is a world that we did not create! Most immediately, and thus closest to our view, we live in a human world that we create ourselves. But that human world, the world in which we most immediately live, cannot survive without the World of Nature. If we forget this, if we forget that all our works, and the entire human world, is totally dependent on the World of Nature, then we can make the kind of mistakes that Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot documents.Read this book! Imbibe the lesson! Work with family and friends to reduce our human impacts on the World of Nature that sustains all life.
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2015
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