The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch [Hardcover]

1. Thinking the Anthropocene  Part 1: The concept and its implications  2. The Geological Turn: Narratives of the Anthropocene  3. Human Destiny in the Anthropocene  4. The Anthropocene and the Convergence of Histories  5. The Political Ecology of the Technocene: Uncovering ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system  6. Losing the Earth Knowingly: Six grammars of environmental reflexivity around 1800  Part 2: Catastrophism in the Anthropocene  7. Anthropocene, Catastrophism and Green Political Theory   8. Eschatology in the Anthropocene: From the chronos of deep time to the kairos of the age of humans  9. Green Eschatology  Part 3: Rethinking politics 10. Back to the Holocene: A conceptual, and possibly practical, return to a nature not intended for humans  11. Accepting the Reality of Gaia: A fundamental shift?  12. Telling Friends from Foes in the Time of the Anthropocene  13. A Much-Needed Renewal of Environmentalism? Eco-politics in the Anthropocene  14. The Anthropocene and Its Victims  Epilogue 15. Commission on Planetary Ages Decision CC87966424/49: The Onomatophore of the Anthropocene

'These are fascinating, many-sided and important explorations of how all the complicated things that humans do are changing the future of a planet. Jan Zalasiewicz, University of Leicester, UK and Chair of the l&