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The result is a fierce and provocative book.\"--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\"Roy Scranton's Learning to Die in the Anthropocene presents, without extraneous bullshit, what we must do to survive on Earth. It's a powerful, useful, and ultimately hopeful book that more than any other I've read has the ability to change people's minds and create change. For me, it crystallizes and expresses what I've been thinking about and trying to get a grasp on. The economical way it does so, with such clarity, sets the book apart from most others on the subject.\"--Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy\"Roy Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate crisis with an honesty that is all too rare, then calls for a reimagined humanism that will help us meet our stormy future with as much decency as we can muster. While I don't share his conclusions about the potential for social movements to drive ambitious mitigation, this is a wise and important challenge from an elegant writer and original thinker. A critical intervention.\"--Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate\"Concise, elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise.\"--Amitav Ghosh, author of Flood of Fire\"War veteran and journalist Roy Scranton combines memoir, philosophy, and science writing to craft one of the definitive documents of the modern era.\"--The Believer Best Books of 2015 Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought--the shock and awe of global warming.Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from every quarter. From war-stricken Baghdad to the melting Arctic, human-caused climate change poses a danger not only to political and economic stability, but to civilization itself . . . and to what it means to be human. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in--the Anthropocene--demands a radical new vision of human life.In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world, taking readers on a journey through street protests, the latest findings of earth scientists, a historic UN summit, millennia of geological history, and the persistent vitality of ancient literature. Expanding on his influential New York Times essay (the #1 most-emailed article the day it appeared, and selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014), Scranton responds to the existential problem of global warming by arguing that in order to survive, we must come to terms with our mortality.Plato argued that to philosophize is to learn to die. If that’s true, says Scranton, then we have entered humanity’s most philosophical age--for this is precisely the problem of the Anthropocene. 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R.", "lastName": "McNeill" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Peter", "lastName": "Engelke" } ], "abstractNote": "The Earth has entered a new age―the Anthropocene―in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism.More than any other factor, human dependence on fossil fuels inaugurated the Anthropocene. Before 1700, people used little in the way of fossil fuels, but over the next two hundred years coal became the most important energy source. When oil entered the picture, coal and oil soon accounted for seventy-five percent of human energy use. This allowed far more economic activity and produced a higher standard of living than people had ever known―but it created far more ecological disruption.We are now living in the Anthropocene. The period from 1945 to the present represents the most anomalous period in the history of humanity’s relationship with the biosphere. Three-quarters of the carbon dioxide humans have contributed to the atmosphere has accumulated since World War II ended, and the number of people on Earth has nearly tripled. So far, humans have dramatically altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. If we try to control these systems through geoengineering, we will inaugurate another stage of the Anthropocene. 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Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated—where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature?In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of wildlife as a replacement for nature. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene—an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet— Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife. Analyzing scientific papers, policy documents, and popular media, as well as a decade of fieldwork, Lorimer explores the new interconnections between science, politics, and neoliberal capitalism that the Anthropocene demands of wildlife conservation.Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "volume": "", "numberOfVolumes": "", "edition": "", "date": "April 1, 2015", "publisher": "Univ Of Minnesota Press", "place": "Minneapolis", "originalDate": "", "originalPublisher": "", "originalPlace": "", "format": "", "numPages": "264", "ISBN": "978-0-8166-8108-2", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Wildlife in the Anthropocene", "language": "English", "libraryCatalog": "Amazon", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2016-04-18T21:45:03Z", "dateModified": "2016-04-18T21:45:03Z" } }, { "key": "XCMREWAC", "version": 1128, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 327893, "name": "Collaboration Seminar", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/collaboration_seminar", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/327893/items/XCMREWAC", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/collaboration_seminar/items/XCMREWAC", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/327893/items/KGNGXGK7", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 20483, "username": "Timothy Burke", "name": "Timothy Burke", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/timothy_burke", "type": "text/html" } } } }, "data": { "key": "XCMREWAC", "version": 1128, "parentItem": "KGNGXGK7", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "linked_url", "title": "Amazon.com Link", "accessDate": "2016-04-18T21:44:32Z", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Nick-Brandt-Inherit-Dust/dp/0692520546?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=9f79b24ef7f32d8034c3cd67beb880ff136366fc&rawdata=%5Br%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fio9.gizmodo.com%2F%5Bt%7Clink%5Bp%7C1771569257%5Ba%7C0692520546%5Bau%7C1506793228%5Bb%7Cgizmodo", "note": "", "contentType": "text/html", "charset": "", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2016-04-18T21:44:32Z", "dateModified": "2016-04-18T21:44:32Z" } }, { "key": "KGNGXGK7", "version": 1128, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 327893, "name": "Collaboration Seminar", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/collaboration_seminar", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/327893/items/KGNGXGK7", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/collaboration_seminar/items/KGNGXGK7", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 20483, "username": "Timothy Burke", "name": "Timothy Burke", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/timothy_burke", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Brandt", "parsedDate": "2016-02-21", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "KGNGXGK7", "version": 1128, "itemType": "book", "title": "Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Nick", "lastName": "Brandt" } ], "abstractNote": "Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs-showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras-placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, and behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt's elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs. Nick Brandt (born 1964) photographs exclusively in Africa. 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But let’s be honest: hedging has never inspired anyone.   So what if we stopped hedging? What if we grounded our efforts to solve environmental problems in hope instead, and let nature make our case for us? That’s what George Monbiot does in Feral, a lyrical, unabashedly romantic vision of how, by inviting nature back into our lives, we can simultaneously cure our “ecological boredom” and begin repairing centuries of environmental damage. Monbiot takes readers on an enchanting journey around the world to explore ecosystems that have been “rewilded”: freed from human intervention and allowed—in some cases for the first time in millennia—to resume their natural ecological processes. We share his awe, and wonder, as he kayaks among dolphins and seabirds off the coast of Wales and wanders the forests of Eastern Europe, where lynx and wolf packs are reclaiming their ancient hunting grounds. 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