Facing the Anthropocene by Ian Angus

Facing the Anthropocene by Ian Angus

Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and 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, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge.Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. Cogent and compellingly written, Facing the Anthropocene offers a unique synthesis of natural and 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. "

"A crisp, eloquent and deeply informed call to arms by a leading eco-socialist"-author of "Planet of Slums" and "In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire," Mike Davis"

Associate Professor Ian Angus, PhD

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ISBN 13	9781583676097
ISBN 10	1583676090
Title	Facing the Anthropocene
Author	Ian Angus
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Year published	2016-07-01
Number of pages	280
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