Contributors include: Christian Parenti [and 5 others].--Cover. The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the ...

While emerging from the geological and earth system sciences and frequently understood as a solely environmental matter, over the last decade the Anthropocene has become an important name for a much ...

Jason W. Moore is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Antropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and ...

Part One. What's in a word? 1. Welcome to the anthropocene ; 2. Thinking with Gaia : towards environmental humanities -- Part Two. Speaking for the earth, guiding humanity : deconstructing the ...

We are living through a period of unprecedented environmental breakdown which is increasingly being referred to as “the Anthropocene”. As the term becomes more and more pervasive, I want to explain ...

Earlier this year, scientists identified early warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, an ocean current that influences the climate of the North American east coast and much of western ...