Living in the Anthropocene by Kress, W. John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Introduction I. A Changing Planet

The Advent of the Anthropocene Thinking Like a Mountain in the Anthropocene The Underwater Anthropocene What Will It Mean to Be Human? Rethinking Economic Growth

II. Drivers of Change

The Fire That Made the Future A New Dream of the Earth Locating Ourselves in Relation to the Natural World Temperate Forests: A Tale of the Anthropocene Urban Nature / Human Nature Atmospherics and the Anthropocene Beyond the Biosphere: Expanding the Limits of the Human World

III. Responding to Change

Archaeology and the Future of Our Planet Living on a Changing Planet: Why Indigenous Voices Matter Black and Green: The Forgotten Commitment to Sustainability Forest Succession and Human Agency in an Uncertain Future Ocean 2.0 The Earth Is a Garden Human Health in the Anthropocene

IV. Visual Culture

The City in the Sea: Alexis Rockman’s Anthropocene Imaginings African Art and the Anthropocene Why Polar Bears? Seeing the Arctic Anew The Return of the Boomerang Filmmaking in the Anthropocene Picturing Planetary Peril: Visual Media and the Environmental Crisis

V. The Way Forward

Dragons in the Greenhouse: The Value of Knowledge and the Danger of Uncertainty Why Scientists and Engineers Must Work Together Hazards to Our Heritage: Choices and Solutions The Unequal Anthropocene The Global Commons Can We Redefine the Anthropocene?

Photo Insert Afterword Notes Further Reading List of Contributors Acknowledgments