Shock of the Anthropocene (eBook)

The Earth, History and Us

Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | Ebook UK & RoW
320 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78478-082-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;human species"e; 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 "e;environmental awareness,"e; 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2016
• Übersetzer: David Fernbach
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-78478-082-0 / 1784780820
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-082-1 / 9781784780821