2015 was the hottest year in recorded history. Scientists have confirmed that the staggering growth of global emissions this past century has caused a definitive turning point in global climate history. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. Many argue that this climate predicament represents a new geological epoch, known as the “Anthropocene”.
If you want to know more about this upsetting and somewhat ominous epoch, please see the new books released by Verso Books.
These books tell about climate change, global warming and environmental disasters.
On the blog of the publisher, you can also see and read free extracts of the latest new releases about this topic: The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, and Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm.
Here are the titles and the links to see and read the extracts:
A Natural History of Destruction:
The Environmental Consequences of War
“War, by creating a state of exception, has justified and encouraged a ‘brutalizing’ of relations between society and environment.” – The Shock of the Anthropocene
Here are the other titles and links to the books about climate change:
Welcome to the Anthropocene: a reading list
“Hunger and poverty are inseparable” – an extract from David Rieff’s The Reproach of Hunger
“The tradition of the dead is breathing down the necks of the living” – Andreas Malm on climate change
Andreas Malm: searching for the origins of the fossil economy
Against the Anthropocene by Daniel Hartley
Below, another extract from The Shock of the Anthropocene:
“We already live in the Anthropocene, so let us get used to this ugly word and the reality that it names. It is our epoch and our condition. The Anthropocene is the sign of our power, but also of our impotence. It is an Earth whose atmosphere has been damaged by the 1,500 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide we have spilled by burning coal and other fossil fuels. It is the impoverishment and artificializing of Earth’s living tissue, permeated by a host of new synthetic chemical molecules that will even affect our descendants. It is a warmer world with a higher risk of catastrophes, a reduced ice cover, higher sea-levels and a climate out of control.”
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