The Shock of the Anthropocene

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

About the Publisher

Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

Book information

ISBN: 9781784785031
Publisher: Verso
Imprint: Verso
Pub date:
DEWEY: 304.2
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 264g
Height: 198mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 25mm