The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784785031)

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.

Author: Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
ISBN-10: 1784785032
ISBN-13: 9781784785031
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d