In Ecocriticism‘s eighth chapter “Earth” we read about “spaceship Earth”. This specific ecological view of the world that tries to envision the world as one big ecosystem in which we all need to work together like the crew on a ship. Mankind has to work together to manage earth’s limited resources in order to achieve the greater good for mankind.
Posted by Konstantin Zielke
Yes, again, Garrard is interested in all the metaphors that guide our behavior in the environment. Is life a big "tree"? Is it a "mother" who cares for us all? Is it godly, divinely created? Is it lapsarian, fallen, in ruin, morally questionable? Is it a timepiece whose every cog could be one day revealed, understood? Is it a spaceship? All of these metaphors--"the planet is a spaceship," for example--subtly suggest ideological positions. It's up to you to limn the contours of those positions and understand them better than most people.
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