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- Thoreau & Me
- Author: Cédric Taling
- Artist: Cédric Taling
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Description
Some heavy reading on the ecological and climate emergency leads Cédric, a forty-something painter living in Paris, to question his life choices.
In a state of vulnerability, racked with eco-anxiety, he is contacted by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau: writer, environmentalist and the author of Walden.
Two centuries separate Cédric from the author who, depressed by the narrow materialism of industrialised America, retreated to a single-room cabin in the woods by Walden Pond.
But as their Socratic dialogue continues, Cédric notices striking parallels between the suffocating commercialism of mid-19th-century America and the unsustainable, alienating, tech-driven consumerism of today. Both societies are shaped by a single priority ― economic growth ― that not only squanders the earth’s resources but separates human beings from nature.
Inspired by Thoreau’s return to nature, Cédric begins dreaming of his own retreat from urban life: his own self-sufficient cabin in the woods. In Thoreau and Me, Cédric Taling explores the causes and consequences of today’s climate emergency.
Blending humour, philosophy and fiction, Taling asks how, at a time of unprecedented ecological and climate breakdown, we can learn to live with and respond to eco-anxiety.
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- Cat. No.
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- EAN
- 9781910593837
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- 9781910593837