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Living with the anthropocene, love, loss and hope in the face of environmental crisis, edited by Cameron Muir, Jenny Newell, Kirsten Wehner

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Living with the anthropocene, love, loss and hope in the face of environmental crisis, edited by Cameron Muir, Jenny Newell, Kirsten Wehner
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
essays
Main title
Living with the anthropocene
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Cameron Muir, Jenny Newell, Kirsten Wehner
Sub title
love, loss and hope in the face of environmental crisis
Summary
Australia, and the world, is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019-20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and young and old alike are rightly anxious. Human activity is transforming the places we live in and love. In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, some of Australia's best-known writers and thinkers, as well as ecologists, walkers, farmers, historians, ornithologists, artists and community activists, come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis. They build a picture of a collective endeavour towards a culture of care, respect, and attention as the physical world changes around us. How do we hold onto hope? Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans
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