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Urgency in the Anthropocene

Urgency in the Anthropocene

Lynch, Amanda H.
Veland, Siri

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Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262535769
ISBN13: 9780262535762
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Nov 6 2018
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A proposal to reframe the Anthropocene as an age of actual and emerging coexistence with earth system variability, encompassing both human dignity and environmental sustainability.

Is this the Anthropocene, the age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth? The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions--a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty and law. The once unacceptable--geoengineering technology, for example, or authoritarian decision making--are now anticipated and even demanded by some. To counter this, Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland propose a reframing of the Anthropocene--seeing it not as a race against catastrophe but as an age of emerging coexistence with earth system variability.

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