The Birth of the Anthropocene

Jeremy Davies (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28998-7 (ISBN)

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The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental destruction and injustice. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Jeremy Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined.

Jeremy Davies teaches in the School of English at the University of Leeds.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Living in Deep Time
2. Versions of the Anthropocene
3. Geology of the Future
4. Th e Rungs on the Ladder
5. An Obituary for the Holocene
Conclusion: Not Even Past

Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	2 maps, 1 table
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-28998-6 / 0520289986
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28998-7 / 9780520289987
Zustand	Neuware