Review ID: CBB727704865

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Pritchard, Sara B. (Author)


Environmental History
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 377-382


Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Film Forum
Language: English

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a provocative blend of art and documentary, but it will—and should—frustrate environmental historians and anyone even remotely aware of critical perspectives on the “Anthropocene.” I would rename the film Dangerous Beauty.Anthropocene is organized around seven topics arranged in sequential episodes: extraction, terraforming, techno-fossils, anthro-turbation, boundary limits, climate change, and extinction. The extraction episode discusses sites ranging from heavy metals processing in Siberia to lithium production in the Chilean desert; the climate change episode shows equally wide-ranging sites such as flooding in Venice, Italy, and China’s Gudong Sea Wall that protects oil fields. Anthropocene’s episodes tell a story of large-scale “human” environmental extraction, management, and transformation that have deposited unprecedented traces of “anthropogenic” impact in the geologic record, thereby calling attention to the pace and extent of “human”-caused environmental change. They emphasize the destructive role of “humanity” through technology and the widespread consequences for nonhumans, ecosystems, and, to a lesser extent, workers and marginalized people—a classic declentionist tale.

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Authors & Contributors
Cristina Baldacci
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel
Dunaway, Finis
Shaul Bassi
Vincent Ialenti
Jacobson, Brian R.
Concepts
Environmental history
Anthropocene
Environment
Climate change
Science and society
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Venice (Italy)
Italy
Veneto
Republic of Liberia
Sardinia
Finland
Institutions
British Petroleum Company
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