The Human Situation 2: Man and His Planet
Aldous Huxley
Jonathan
May 12, 202616 February 1959UC Santa Barbara, CA
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The speaker argues that humans have profoundly altered the planet, often destructively, through deforestation, species loss, soil erosion, overgrazing, and fire. He contrasts these harms with a few constructive human interventions and ends by calling for a moral and aesthetic understanding of nature, not just a technical one.
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