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The birth of the Anthropocene /
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001	$ 440002
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008	$ 180605s2016 caua u000 u eng d
020	$a9780520289987$q(pbk. : alk. paper)
020	$a9780520289970$q(cloth : alk. paper)
100	$aDavies, Jeremy,$d1983-$eautore
245	$aThe birth of the Anthropocene /$cJeremy Davies.$hLibro
264	$aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2016]
264	$c©2016
300	$aix, 234 pagine :$billustrazioni ;$c20 cm
504	$aIndicazioni bibliografiche nelle note
520	$aThe world is facing an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birth of the Anthropocene shows how this epochal transformation puts the deep history of the planet at the heart of contemporary environmental politics. By opening a window onto geological time, the idea of the Anthropocene changes our understanding of present-day environmental despoliation and injustice. Jeremy Davies argues incisively that unequal relations between human societies must now be understood as ecological and geophysical forces that leave profound traces in the makeup of the planet. Linking new developments in earth science to the insights of world historians, Davies shows that as the Anthropocene epoch begins, politics and geology have become inextricably entwined--Quarta di copertina
650	$aEcologia$xAspetti sociali
650	$aAntropocene
650	$aPaleoecologia
650	$aUomo e ambiente
852	$m20-B-5632$xM