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Altered earth : getting the anthropocene right / edited by Julia Adeney Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Human ecology.
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Climatic changes.
- Geology, Stratigraphic.
- human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection ends by presenting what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. "Right" in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE STRATA AND STORIES
- 1. Science: Old and New Patterns of the Anthropocene / Jan Zalasiewicz
- 2. Humanities and Social Sciences: Human Stories and the Anthropocene Earth System / Julia Adeney Thomas
- pt. TWO ONE ANTHROPOCENE; MANY STORIES
- 3. Earth System Science: Gravity, the Earth System, and the Anthropocene / Will Steffen
- 4. Deep History and Disease: Germs and Humanity's Rise to Planetary Dominance / Kyle Harper
- 5. Anthropology: Colonialism, Indigeneily, and Wind Power in the Anthropocene / Dominic Boyer
- 6. The Ascent of the Anthropoi: A Story / Amitav Ghosh
- 7. Politics in the Anthropocene / Manuel Arias-Ma Ldonado
- 8. Very Recent History and the Nuclear Anthropocene / Kate Brown
- 9. Stratigraphy: Finding Global Markers in a Small Canadian Lake / Francine McCarthy
- 10. Curating the Anthropocene at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Bernd Scherer
- pt. THREE FUTURE HABITATIONS
- 11. Anthropocene Ethics, as Seen From a Mars Mission: A Story / Clive Hamilton
- 12. Mutualistic Cities of the Near Future / Jan Calasiewicz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781316517475
- 1316517470
- 9781009045537
- 1009045539
- OCLC:
- 1286799120
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