Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

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Fortunately, his Prospect Cottage has just been rescued from private sale by a crowdfunding campaign. Those who work night shifts were found in one Danish study, for instance, to have a 40% increased chance of contracting breast cancer than the general population. This book is compelling, thoughtful and necessary at a time where we continue to take the natural world for granted. Jones has written an imagined piece about what the world may look like in the year 2100 – clue, something close to apocalyptic. Reddy is surprised that the woman lives on an ordinary road near a barn of “desperate-looking cows” and wonders how she copes “in constant proximity to so much misery”.

These blinks provide insights into the science of our connection with nature and how we can reimagine our relationship with the earth as equal and mutually beneficial. Selles raamatus on ideekohaselt olemas olulised nurgakivid, mis võiks sellest teha mu suure lemmiku. She discusses Attention Restoration Therapy, the Japanese practice of “forest bathing,” and the crime-reducing effects of green spaces in cities. As it deepens our understanding of matrescence, it raises vital questions about motherhood and femininity; interdependence and individual identity; as well as about our relationships with each other and the living world. Also, I was very touched by the last chapters of the book where she described the extinction of species due to loss of habitat.Even referring to pigs as 'pork' or cows as 'beef' emphasizes our alienation and disconnection from the land and other living creatures” (133-134). Social scientists and the medical establishment, for example, have begun to accept the idea that greening poor neighborhoods could “mitigate the negative effects of income deprivation on health.

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.Just as Silent Spring led to real societal change (in the form of a ban on the pesticide DDT), let us hope Jones’s work inspires steps in the right direction. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves?