The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet

The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet

The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet

The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet

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Overview

For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technology interact. According to Paul Crutzen, we are now living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, a time in which human dominance of Earth’s biological, chemical and geological processes is an undeniable reality, presenting us with a new role as planetary stewards.

This is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive overview of our planetary situation and outlook. Schwägerl off ers tools to create realistic solutions to our ecological crises, and shares his vision of a world that balances ecological sustainability, economic prosperity, political justice and cultural vibrancy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780907791553
Publisher: SYNERGETIC PR
Publication date: 11/05/2014
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Christian Schwägerl is a Berlin-based journalist, author and biologist. After many years as a science and environment staff correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Newspaper and DER SPIEGEL magazine, he now works as a freelance writer for GEO, Cicero and DIE ZEIT science magazine as well as other leading media. He is a past winner of the "Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism," and the "Econsense Journalism Award." Schwägerl is a co-creator and project leader of The Anthropocene Project, a three-year collaboration at Haus der Kulturen der Welt cultural center in Berlin.

Table of Contents

Foreword Paul J. Crutzen vii

Preface ix

prologue Writing in the Sky 1

1 Welcome to the Club of Revolutionaries 11

2 The Long March 22

3 The End of the Holocene 31

4 Signals of Earth Time 49

5 Apocalypse "No" 70

6 The Evergreen Revolution 86

7 The Invironment 106

8 Technature 127

9 Directing Evolution 150

10 Earth Economy 174

11 Action Potentials 191

12 Anthropocene Day 206

epilogue Deep Future 219

Acknowledgments 228

Glossary 229

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