The Birth of the Anthropocene by Davies, Jeremy

The Birth of the Anthropocene (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520289970)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Birth of the Anthropocene by Davies, Jeremy

The Birth of the Anthropocene

$29.95
The Birth of the Anthropocene by Davies, Jeremy

The Birth of the Anthropocene

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental destruction and injustice. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Jeremy Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined.

Author: Jeremy Davies
ISBN-10: 0520289978
ISBN-13: 9780520289970
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2016
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d

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Choice 03/01/2017
By Jeremy Davies
By Jeremy Davies
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Jeremy Davies teaches in the School of English at the University of Leeds.

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