The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us

✍ Scribed by Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste

• Book ID: 108901552
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781784780791

✦ Synopsis

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...