id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_xjh4v47umvazxlbvwlneicz7py Gabriel Egan 'Shakespeare and eco-criticism: The unexpected return of the Elizabethan World Picture' 2004.0 10 .pdf application/pdf 6425 399 62 "Shakespeare and ecocriticism: The unexpected return of the Elizabethan World Picture" By The ways we human beings think about the world around us – our explanations for how the Earth came to Separating us from Shakespeare's time is a radical new way of thinking that the Earth, Lovelock invented a simple model of a Gaia process and called it DaisyWorld. ever-rising output of the sun is making DaisyWorld rather too hot for daisies, but of course the white, Eventually, of course, the sun's energy is so great that not even a white daisy-cooled planet can sustain The black daisies of DaisyWorld retain heat energy that strikes them while the white ones reflect it away. turned from white to black because of the sun (tanning is in all people a marginal change) just as no daisy turned from black to white in DaisyWorld. post-structuralists for whom binary oppositions of the kind black/white are false, human distinctions in ./cache/work_xjh4v47umvazxlbvwlneicz7py.pdf ./txt/work_xjh4v47umvazxlbvwlneicz7py.txt