Anthropocene: A New Planet Shaped By Humans: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet - Hardcover

Christian Schwägerl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0907791549 ISBN 13: 9780907791546

Publisher: Synergetic Press, 2014

Synopsis

More than a decade ago, Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen first suggested that we were now living in the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in which human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth wasalready an undeniable reality. Crutzen's ideas inspired Christian Schwägerl to do further documentation and to write this stimulating book.

"...intellectually exciting book...shows us how we humans turn our relationship with Nature upside down. -- Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP)

"Schwagerl may not be summoning the apocalypse so much as ringing in the Sunrise World as a Green Utopian. -- Jeanne Rubner, Süddeutsche Zeitung

"...skillfully investigated, and an invitation to join a dawning Age of Humans, where our total responsibility is fundamental to life itself. -- Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder, Former CEO of Berlin's Museum of Natural History and advisor to the German government on global environmental change

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Review:

"This is a splendid introduction to the Anthropocene by one of its most eloquent celebrants." -- Diane Ackerman, author of The Human Age

..".authorative and engaging. Read, enjoy and recommend..." --Frank Oldfield, The Anthropocene Review

About the Author:

Christian Schwagerl has been a political, science and environmental journalist for more than 20 years. He first studied biology at the University of Berlin, completing his Master of Science degree at the University of Reading. He is a past winner of the "Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism," the IUCN-Reuters Media Awards for excellence in Environmental Reporting (Category Europe, together with Philip Bethge and Rafaela von Bredow) and the "Econsense Journalism Award "for sustainability.

About this edition

• Publisher: Synergetic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0907791549
• ISBN 13: 9780907791546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 383