Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Shock of the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

The Earth, History and Us
Übersetzer: Fernbach, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 "human species" 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 "environmental awareness," 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784780821
• Artikelnr.: 48038935

Autorenporträt

Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and edits the Anthropoc¿ne series for Editions du Seuil.

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, formerly a lecturer at Imperial College, London, is now a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.