Altered earth: getting the anthropocene right

by Thomas, Julia Adeney

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Full title :Altered earth : getting the anthropocene right / edited by Julia Adeney Thomas.

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"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"

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Publication Date:2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022

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The Physical Object

Description:XVII, 277 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316517475, 1316517470, 9781009045537, 1009045539
oclc:on1310046181
LC Classification:GF75
Dewey Decimal:304.2

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