The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch (Routledge Environmental Humanities) by Clive Hamilton


The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch (Routledge Environmental Humanities)
Title : The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch (Routledge Environmental Humanities)
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ISBN : 1317589092
ISBN-10 : 9781317589099
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 188
Publication : First published June 4, 2015

The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question.

The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch (Routledge Environmental Humanities) Reviews

  • Karol Ujueta Rojas

    One of the best and most complete books on climate change implications not only for nature but for the economy, the social, the philosophy, the politics. History now carries the name of humans as an geological epoch "the anthropocene" marks the end of the "holocene" (10.000 years) because we, anthropos/humans, have become agents of geological and environmental change from the stable climate and chemical composition of earth, water and soil, the explosion of life that gave name to our current cenozoic era to unpredictable forces of nature, acidification of the oceans, depletion of minerals, metals, soils and the 6th massive extinction of life on earth caused by humans. The anthropocene will be an epoch that will shape the planet in yet unknown ways but that will last at least as long as our current epoch.

  • Mafalda

    A good book that clarifies the importance of social sciences and humanities in the study of the Anthropocene.