Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene

by Clive Hamilton

Book Overview

Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene - one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'.

The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the Earth's geochronology is an event of monumental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509519750
• ISBN13: 9781509519750
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"