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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
Professor J. R. McNeill
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Description for The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
Paperback. The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. .
The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. 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, climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism. 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, and by 1900 coal and oil accounted for ... Read more
The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. 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, climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism. 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, and by 1900 coal and oil accounted for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674545038
SKU
V9780674545038
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99-14
About Professor J. R. McNeill
J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Peter Engelke is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC.
Reviews for The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
Among the first scholarly works to make explicit use of the geological framework of the Anthropocene for the purpose of rethinking the grand narratives of global economic change.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Public Books (12/01/2016)
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Public Books (12/01/2016)