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10.19: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
2015-09-15 21:01:43| Powells Books Events Calendar
Combining memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights) is Iraq War veteran Roy Scranton's bracing response to challenges posed by global warming and his hope in the humanities.
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Mad Max: Fury Road may be the Anthropocene at its worst but it makes for pretty sick cinema
2015-05-15 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Welcome back to Green Screen, where Grist writers break out their inner film buffs to talk movies, television, video games, and any other heretofore undiscovered screen-based media forms. This week, our star team turn to the newly released Mad Max: Fury Road, from Australian writer and producer George Miller. The Basics: Its a symphony of demented action - a single-minded there-and-back-again chase with more kaleidoscopic explosions, deformed tribal villains, and nightmare hoopties of death than...
New chapter in Earth history: Fallout from nuclear weapons tests marks dawn Anthropocene?
2015-05-11 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history -- the Anthropocene. The study, led by Dr Colin Waters of the British Geological Survey, published new research in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The research involved 10 members of the Anthropocene Working Group that is chaired by Professor Jan Zalasiewicz of the Department of Geology...
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Exploring Academias Role Charting Good Anthropocene
2014-06-16 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: I spent the tail end of last week at the annual conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, a young network of scholars and students aiming to foster collaborations among disciplines from ecology to ethics in studying, and improving, the human relationship to the environment. As the group explains on its website: [I]t is only through learning communities of the type proposed for A.E.S.S. that we can achieve whole system environmental education and the creative...
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Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
2013-11-10 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Driving into Iraq just after the 2003 invasion felt like driving into the future. We convoyed all day, all night, past Army checkpoints and burned-out tanks, till in the blue dawn Baghdad rose from the desert like a vision of hell: Flames licked the bruised sky from the tops of refinery towers, cyclopean monuments bulged and leaned against the horizon, broken overpasses swooped and fell over ruined suburbs, bombed factories, and narrow ancient streets. With shock and awe, our military had unleashed...
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