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Author(s): Julia Adeney Thomas (editor)

ISBN(s): 9781009045537, 1009045539

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Year: 2022

Language: English

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Author: Julia Adeney Thomas

Altered Earth
Getting the Anthropocene Right

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:

Part One Strata and Stories
Chapter 1 Science: Old and New Patterns of the Anthropocene
Fundamental Pattern of the Anthropocene
Climate Context of the Ice Age
A Mineral Epoch
Bulk Materials
The Scale of Absent Life
The Rise of Technology
Possibilities
Further reading
Chapter 2 Humanities and Social Sciences: Human Stories and the Anthropocene Earth System
Storytelling
Story #1 Anything Goes
New Stories for a New Reality
Story #2 The Singular Story
Story #3 A Democracy of Voices
Conclusion
Part Two One Anthropocene; Many Stories
Chapter 3 Earth System Science: Gravity, the Earth System, and the Anthropocene
References
Chapter 4 Deep History and Disease: Germs and Humanity’s Rise to Planetary Dominance
The Abundant Ape
Human Disease from an Ecological Perspective
Archives of Evolutionary History
Human Expansion Drives Pathogen Evolution
Disinfecting the Planet
Emerging Diseases Now
Chapter 5 Anthropology: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Wind Power in the Anthropocene
Where the Wind Blows
In the Culture of Wind
The Ghosts of Extraction in Latin America
Making Policy Framework for the Anthropocene
Questioning Transition and Prefigurative Politics
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 The Ascent of the Anthropoi: A Story
Chapter 7 Politics in the Anthropocene
Coming to Terms with Ourselves
The Human Species as a New Agent of Politics
Politics for the Anthropocene: Three Approaches
Liberal Democracy
Eco-Authoritarianism
Green Communitarianism
Conclusion: Towards Unity of Purpose
References
Chapter 8 Very Recent History and the Nuclear Anthropocene
Chapter 9 Stratigraphy: Finding Global Markers in a Small Canadian Lake
References
Chapter 10 Curating the Anthropocene at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Part Three Future Habitations
Chapter 11 Anthropocene Ethics, as Seen From a Mars Mission: A Story
Further Reading
Chapter 12 Mutualistic Cities of the Near Future
The Mutualistic City