Book ID: CBB198861990

The Birth of the Anthropocene (2016)

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Jeremy Davies (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 248
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel
Olga Smith
Peter Engelke
Shaul Bassi
Cristina Baldacci
Jedediah Purdy
Concepts
Climate change
Anthropocene
Environmental history
Science and society
Water resource management
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Early modern
Modern
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Venice (Italy)
Italy
Sardinia
Great Plains (North America)
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