Shock of the Anthropocene - The Earth, History and Us

Zusatztext 51112824 Informationen zum Autor Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, illustrated by AP Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene"

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• Authors: C. Fressoz Bonneuil, Christophe Bonneuil, Christophe Fressoz Bonneuil, Bonneuil Christophe, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fressoz Jean-Baptiste
• Assisted by: David Fernbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781784785031
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-503-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Applied ecology, Social & political philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social impact of environmental issues, Impact of science and technology on society, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)