The Anthropocene The Human Era

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For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technological innovation interact. In The Anthropocene, Schwägerl draws on years of research to present an illuminating account of how the planet works today. He explores the ways in which humans are the most dynamic geological force on Planet Earth, creating the first man-made geological epoch many call the Anthropocene. Schwägerl indicates convincingly how we humans can make this epoch extremely creative and biosphere enhancing. He shows how our technics, if devoted to maximizing prosperity, political justice and cultural vibrancy, can create a new relationship with nature. The Anthropocene was praised by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as an intellectually exciting book which shows us how we humans turn our relationship with Nature upside down. Over millennia we were rebels against a more powerful force. Now it is we who decide what will be Nature tomorrow and after, e.g. by determining the climate and altering the oceans.