TY - BOOK ID - 143794153 TI - Bitter shade : the ecological challenge of human consciousness PY - 2021 SN - 0300258070 0300258070 9780300258073 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143794153 AB - This book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we transcend the exigencies of daily life? How can we achieve sufficient distance from our own everyday realities to think and act more sustainably? To address these questions, Michael R. Dove draws on the results of decades of research in South and Southeast Asia on how local cultures have circumvented the 'curse of consciousness' - the paradox that we cannot completely comprehend the ecosystem of which we are part. ER -