| Titre : |
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Simon L. Lewis, Auteur ; Mark A Maslin, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
New Haven : Yale university press |
| Année de publication : |
2018 |
| Importance : |
480 p. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-300-23217-2 |
| Prix : |
17,07 € |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
577.27 Les effets de l'action humaine sur l'écologie : différents types de pollution |
| Résumé : |
In their book, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene, Simon Lewis, Professor of Quaternary Science at Queen Mary University of London, and Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London, have crafted a narrative of sweeping breadth that takes their readers from the deep geological past into the Anthropocene—a proposed geological time period that acknowledges the profound effects humans have enacted on Earth. Calling the Anthropocene one of the most “arresting ideas” (15) to arise from science in years, with graceful prose Lewis and Maslin tell the story of humans as a “geological superpower” (5).
Four themes animate the work: human-induced environmental changes; transitions in patterns of energy use and social organization; candidates for the identifiable beginning of the Anthropocene; and the future of humanity in the new epoch. Their stated purpose for investigating these themes is to “illuminate what is at stake in order to allow the crafting of humane and intelligent responses to living on our human-dominated planet” (15). To entertain Lewis’ and Maslin’s ideas is to engage their central question, “Can humans flourish on a rapidly changing planet, or is the future one of grim survival, or even our own extinction?” (5). |
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The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene [texte imprimé] / Simon L. Lewis, Auteur ; Mark A Maslin, Auteur . - New Haven : Yale university press, 2018 . - 480 p. ISBN : 978-0-300-23217-2 : 17,07 € Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
577.27 Les effets de l'action humaine sur l'écologie : différents types de pollution |
| Résumé : |
In their book, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene, Simon Lewis, Professor of Quaternary Science at Queen Mary University of London, and Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London, have crafted a narrative of sweeping breadth that takes their readers from the deep geological past into the Anthropocene—a proposed geological time period that acknowledges the profound effects humans have enacted on Earth. Calling the Anthropocene one of the most “arresting ideas” (15) to arise from science in years, with graceful prose Lewis and Maslin tell the story of humans as a “geological superpower” (5).
Four themes animate the work: human-induced environmental changes; transitions in patterns of energy use and social organization; candidates for the identifiable beginning of the Anthropocene; and the future of humanity in the new epoch. Their stated purpose for investigating these themes is to “illuminate what is at stake in order to allow the crafting of humane and intelligent responses to living on our human-dominated planet” (15). To entertain Lewis’ and Maslin’s ideas is to engage their central question, “Can humans flourish on a rapidly changing planet, or is the future one of grim survival, or even our own extinction?” (5). |
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