The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and UsVerso Books, 9. feb. 2016 - 320 sider Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene” The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch. |
Indhold
PART | |
Who Is the Anthropos? | |
A Political History of | |
Power and Ecocide | |
Consuming the Planet | |
A Combined History of Earth System | |
Surviving and Living the Anthropocene | |
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