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Earthmasters
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2013
Earthmasters written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Science categories.
What if there were a magic bullet to fix our ailing planet? What if it meant seizing control of Earth's climate? Clive Hamilton investigates the huge risks of reaching for desperate measures to save the planet, explains the science accessibly and uncovers the worrying motives of those promoting them. Hamilton at Charles Sturt University.
Earthmasters
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Earthmasters written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Political Science categories.
DIVThis book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?” has been superseded by a more frightening one, “what can be done to prevent the devastation of the living world?” And the disturbing answer, now under wide discussion both within and outside the scientific community, is to seize control of the very climate of the Earth itself./divDIV /divDIVClive Hamilton begins by exploring the range of technologies now being developed in the field of geoengineering--the intentional, enduring, large-scale manipulation of Earth’s climate system. He lays out the arguments for and against climate engineering, and reveals the extent of vested interests linking researchers, venture capitalists, and corporations. He then examines what it means for human beings to be making plans to control the planet’s atmosphere, probes the uneasiness we feel with the notion of exercising technological mastery over nature, and challenges the ways we think about ourselves and our place in the natural world./div
Humans Versus Nature
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Author : Daniel R. Headrick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Humans Versus Nature written by Daniel R. Headrick and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Nature categories.
Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them. Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
Harpist In The Wind
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Author : Patricia A. McKillip
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-08-13
Harpist In The Wind written by Patricia A. McKillip and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-13 with Fiction categories.
Though Morgon the Riddle-Master was reunited with his beloved Raederle, his purpose in life and the reason for the stars on his forehead remained a mystery. All around him, the realm shook with war as mysterious shape-changers battled against mankind. Without the missing High One, Morgon must assume responsibility for all his world.
Capitalism In The Anthropocene
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Author : John Bellamy Foster
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-08-23
Capitalism In The Anthropocene written by John Bellamy Foster and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with Political Science categories.
Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by the onset of a new, more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by an “anthropogenic rift” in the biological cycles of the Earth System, marking a changed reality in which human activities are now the main geological force impacting the earth as a whole, generating at the same time an existential crisis for the world’s population. What caused this massive shift in the history of the earth? In this comprehensive study, John Bellamy Foster tells us that a globalized system of capital accumulation has induced humanity to foul its own nest. The result is a planetary emergency that threatens all present and future generations, throwing into question the continuation of civilization and ultimately the very survival of humanity itself. Only by addressing the social aspects of the current planetary emergency, exploring the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of the capitalism’s alteration of the planetary environment, is it possible to develop the ecological and social resources for a new journey of hope.
Secular Discourse On Sin In The Anthropocene
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Author : Ernst M. Conradie
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Secular Discourse On Sin In The Anthropocene written by Ernst M. Conradie and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Religion categories.
In Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What’s Wrong with the World, Ernst M. Conradie utilizes a notion of social diagnostics to explore not only the surface-level symptoms of ecological destruction, but also its ultimate causes. Conradie uses two toolkits to review secular literature on the Anthropocene, namely the prophetic and pastoral vocabulary of Christian sin-talk and the theological critique against apartheid in South Africa. Various layers of the underlying problem are uncovered on this bases, including unsustainable “habits of the heart,” structural violence, the ideologies of unlimited economic growth and humanism, quasi-soteriologies such as climate engineering, idolatries such as self-divinization, and heresy. Conradie offers authentic discourse on the Anthropocene from the perspective of the global South, and includes a theological postscript to posit tentative suggestions as to what God may have in store for humanity in this time. Scholars of theology, environmental studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.
Unprecedented
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Author : David Ray Griffin
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2015-01-04
Unprecedented written by David Ray Griffin and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-04 with Science categories.
This book combines (1) the most extensive treatment of the causes and phenomena of climate change in combination with (2) an extensive treatment of social obstacles and challenges (fossil-fuel funded denialism, media failure,political failure, and moral, religious, and economic challenges), (3) the most extensive treatment of the needed transition from fossil-fuel energy to clean energy, and (4) the most extensive treatment of mobilization. It provides the most complete, most up-to-date treatment of the various kinds of clean energy, and how they could combine to provide 70% clean energy by 2035 and 100% before 2050 (both U.S. and worldwide).
Earthmaster First Sight
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Author : Charles Harwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-17
Earthmaster First Sight written by Charles Harwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-17 with categories.
Earthmaster Tales Trilogy: Book One: First Sight Christian has been waiting more than 400 years for his time to come. Tutored by a visitor from another world, who was sent to instruct him by The Creator himself, he possesses the infinite knowledge of the foundation of the Universe. With instructions to watch over the planet and stay in the shadows until he is needed, he has waited patiently for this day. And now, with the planet hurtling headlong towards self-destruction, Christian knows that he must make his move to avert disaster. But alongside his readiness to serve, he struggles with the anguish of a love he lost centuries before. Christian's mission is clear in his mind, but his heart is a very different matter and revealing himself to a suspicious and disbelieving world might be the least of his troubles. Will Christian's mastery of Universal Knowledge be enough to protect the Earth from forces bent on its destruction and yet save the one he loves? As vast armies begin to assemble, and the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, will Christian and the thousands of students he has trained be enough to contend with the coming storm?
Requiem For A Species
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 2010
Requiem For A Species written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Nature categories.
First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Unconstructable Earth
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Author : Frédéric Neyrat
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Unconstructable Earth written by Frédéric Neyrat and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Science categories.
Winner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation The Space Age is over? Not at all! A new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will, controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering. This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of power—geopower—that takes the entire Earth, in its social, biological and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge, intervention, and governmentality. In short, our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. Such is the position we find ourselves in, when proposals for reengineering the earth’s ecosystems and geosystems are taken as the only politically feasible answer to ecological catastrophe. Yet far from being merely the fruit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative of geopower has also been activated by theorists of the constructivist turn—ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist, accelerationist—who have likewise called into question the great divide between nature and culture. With the collapse of this divide, a cyborg, hybrid, flexible nature has been built, an impoverished nature that does not exist without being performed by technologies that proliferate within the space of human needs and capitalist imperatives. Underneath this performative vision resides a hidden anaturalism denying all otherness to nature and the Earth, no longer by externalizing it as a thing to be dominated, but by radically internalizing it as something to be digested. Constructivist ecology thus finds itself in no position to confront the geoconstructivist project, with its claim that there is no nature and its aim to replace Earth with Earth 2.0. Against both positions, Neyrat stakes out the importance of the unconstructable Earth. Against the fusional myth of technology over nature, but without returning to the division between nature and culture, he proposes an “ecology of separation” that acknowledges the wild, subtractive capacity of nature. Against the capitalist, technocratic delusion of earth as a constructible object, but equally against an organicism marked by unacknowledged traces of racism and sexism, Neyrat shows what it means to appreciate Earth as an unsubstitutable becoming: a traject that cannot be replicated in a laboratory. Underway for billions of years, withdrawing into the most distant past and the most inaccessible future, Earth escapes the hubris of all who would remake and master it. This remarkable book, which will be of interest to those across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, from theorists to shapers of policy, recasts the earth as a singular trajectory that invites humans to turn political ecology into a geopolitics.