Life on Planet Earth

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Pub Date Oct 28 2024 | Archive Date Oct 11 2024
Troubador | Troubador Publishing

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Description

Cecil Jenkins provides a coherent analysis of the interlocking challenges confronting humans, the younger generation most directly, on this small planet. While firmly backed by research, it is written with humour within a teasing framework and in an easy conversational style.

After sketching the cosmic accidents that created the planet, killed off the dinosaurs and made way for the modern human to evolve into ‘the only creature to know that it will die’, Cecil begins with the successive lotteries determining conception, gender, physical appearance and the interplay of Nature and Nurture. This leads directly to the family, with its often-testing dynamics and its birth order stereotypes, which are then viewed in relation to wealth, social class, political change and indeed to the many conflicting religions and ideologies.

Having proceeded against this background to examine the changing nature of relationships, both social and intimate, he moves finally to the major challenges now facing our species: the life-or-death question of climate change, the promising yet menacing onset of artificial intelligence, and the mysterious dark matter and energy that reduce our area of understanding to 5% of the universe. After looking at changing views of death, he ends on a note of cautious optimism.

Cecil Jenkins provides a coherent analysis of the interlocking challenges confronting humans, the younger generation most directly, on this small planet. While firmly backed by research, it is...


A Note From the Publisher

Cecil Jenkins taught at Sussex University, where he also served for a period as Dean of European Studies. In addition to his published academic books, A Brief History of France; A Brief History of Paris; the critical studies Mauriac and André Malraux, he has published a prize-winning crime novel, a novel about Picasso, and had three stage plays performed, one in New York, plus plays on Radio 3. He is based in London.

Cecil Jenkins taught at Sussex University, where he also served for a period as Dean of European Studies. In addition to his published academic books, A Brief History of France; A Brief History of...


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ISBN 9781805149859
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PAGES 160

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