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02642aam a2200301 i 4500 001 5756967E79A311E7B502517097128E48 003 SILO 005 20170805010008 008 170320t20172017enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016055253 020 $a 1509519742 020 $a 9781509519743 020 $a 1509519750 020 $a 9781509519750 040 $d SILO 050 00 $a GF41 $b .H363 2017 082 00 $a 304.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Hamilton, Clive, $e author. 245 10 $a Defiant Earth : $b the fate of humans in the Anthropocene / $c Clive Hamilton. 264 1 $a Cambridge, UK ; $b Polity Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xiv, 185 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch--the Anthropocene--one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'. The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the Earth's geochronology is an event of monumental significance, on a par with the arrival of civilisation itself. What does it mean to have arrived at this point, where human history and Earth history collide? Some interpret the Anthropocene as no more than a development of what they already know, obscuring and deflating its profound significance. But the Anthropocene demands that we rethink everything. The modern belief in the free, reflexive being making its own future by taking control of its environment--even to the point of geoengineering--is now impossible because we have rendered the Earth more unpredictable and less controllable, a disobedient planet. At the same time, all attempts by progressives to cut humans down to size by attacking anthropocentrism come up against the insurmountable fact that human beings now possess enough power to change the Earth's course. It's too late to turn back the geological clock, and there is no going back to premodern ways of thinking. We must face the fact that humans are at the centre of the world, even if we must give the idea that we can control the planet. These truths call for a new kind of anthropocentrism, a philosophy by which we might use our power responsibly and find a way to live on a defiant Earth"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human ecology. 650 0 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213012441.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5756967E79A311E7B502517097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search