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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826187303321

Autore

Schwägerl Christian

Titolo

The anthropocene : the human era and how it shapes our planet / / Christian Schwägerl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Fe, New Mexico : , : Synergetic Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-907791-56-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages)

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Environmental ethics

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Environmental responsibility

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue Writing in the Sky -- One Welcome to the Club of Revolutionaries -- Two The Long March -- Three The End of the Holocene -- Four Signals of Earth Time -- Five Apocalypse "No" -- Six The Evergreen Revolution -- Seven The Invironment -- Eight Technature -- Nine Directing Evolution -- Ten Earth Economy -- Eleven Action Potentials -- Twelve Anthropocene Day -- Epilogue Deep Future -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- About the Author -- Also from Synergetic Press.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Schwägerl explores the ways in which our relationship with nature has gone awry, and taking a step further than this, he suggests how humanity can take action to create a more fruitful future for ourselves and our planet.