Bibliograph

After nature, a politics for the anthropocene, Jedediah Purdy

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After nature, a politics for the anthropocene, Jedediah Purdy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

After nature

Responsibility statement

Jedediah Purdy

Sub title

a politics for the anthropocene

Summary

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics-- a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-nautral world

Table Of Contents

1. An Unequal Terrain -- 2. God's Avid Gardeners -- 3. Nature as Teacher -- 4. Natural Utopias -- 5. A Conservationist Empire -- 6. A Wilderness Passage into Ecology -- 7. Environmental Law in the Anthropocene -- 8. What Kind of Democracy?

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