Altered Earth Getting the Anthropocene Right 1st Edition by Julia Adeney Thomas 9781009050876 1009050877

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• ISBN 10: 1009050877
• ISBN 13: 9781009050876
• Author: Julia Adeney Thomas

Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection presents what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. ‘Right’ in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Science: Old and New Patterns of the Anthropocene

Chapter 2 Humanities and Social Sciences: Human Stories and the Anthropocene Earth System

Chapter 3 Earth System Science: Gravity, the Earth System, and the Anthropocene

Chapter 4 Deep History and Disease: Germs and Humanity’s Rise to Planetary Dominance

Chapter 5 Anthropology: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Wind Power in the Anthropocene

Chapter 6 The Ascent of the Anthropoi: A Story

Chapter 7 Politics in the Anthropocene

Chapter 8 Very Recent History and the Nuclear Anthropocene

Chapter 9 Stratigraphy: Finding Global Markers in a Small Canadian Lake

Chapter 10 Curating the Anthropocene at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Chapter 11 Anthropocene Ethics, as Seen From a Mars Mission: A Story

Chapter 12 Mutualistic Cities of the Near Future

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