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Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
(Beteiligte)
The Shock of the Anthropocene
The Earth, History and Us
2017. 320 S. 7.8 in
Verlag/Jahr: VERSO 2017
ISBN: 1-78478-503-2 (1784785032)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78478-503-1 (9781784785031)
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Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene"
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.
Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and edits the Anthropocène 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.