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List of illustrations

  • The Holocene: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
  • Global temperature change, 1880–2010
  • The Human Footprint
  • Environmental Protection Agency’s projected atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, 2000–2100
  • IGBP, the Great Acceleration
  • Newcomen engine
  • James Watt
  • James Watt steam engine
  • William Rankine
  • Stationary steam engine, Stott Park Bobbin Mill
  • Self-Portrait
  • The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838
  • Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
  • Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa
  • American Progress
  • The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania
  • Your Mobile Expectations: BMW H2R Project
  • Charles Dickens
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The School of Athens
  • Sir Isaac Newton
  • Warren County protest
  • Protest over proposed sewage plant
  • Ecological Revolutions diagram
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Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
We are all blips of life in a sea of eternity. Each life, whether human, animal, plant, or bacterium, constantly combats the most relentless and unforgiving of nature’s laws...
PublisherYale University Press
Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
Climate change is the most critical issue for the long-term well-being of humanity in the twenty-first century...
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Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
Here I explore the period from the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century through the mid-twenty-first century, an era dubbed the Anthropocene by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer...
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Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
Artists and photographers who have engaged with global warming believe that the visual arts are an essential part of creating the large-scale public awareness and understanding of climate change that can bring about substantive policy change...
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A rich history of literature exists that is highly relevant to the Age of the Anthropocene. This history includes poets such as William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Gary Snyder, and Robert Hass...
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Established religions and individual spirituality form critical perspectives on the Anthropocene. As historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker points out...
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Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
Twenty-first-century humanity is in the throes of a paradigm shift, one that is triggered by the rise of the new sciences of chaos and complexity, with climate change the most widespread catastrophe for the human future...
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Ethics and justice are essential ingredients for a transformative response to the Anthropocene. Here I reevaluate ethical frameworks and approaches, such as...
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Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
The Anthropocene raises significant issues not only for the sciences and social sciences but especially for the environmental humanities. Humanity’s relationships with the environment should address the consequences of climate change...
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