Facing The Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism And The Crisis Of The Earth
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Science tells us that a new & dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun the Anthropocene a time of rising temperatures extreme weather rising oceans & mass species extinctions Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather but a crisis of the Earth System If business as usual continues this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical social & economic environment Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable & civilization itself will be threatened Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency & what we must do to meet the challenge Bridging the gap between Earth System science & ecological Marxism Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes & consequences of the Anthropocene transition but also the social & economic trends that underlie the crisis Cogent & compellingly written Facing the Anthropocene offers a unique synthesis of natural & social science that illustrates how capitalism's inexorable drive for growth powered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels that took millions of years to form has driven our world to the brink of disaster Survival in the Anthropocene Angus argues requires radical social change replacing fossil capitalism with a new ecosocialist civilization "