{"product_id":"9781784785031","title":"The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eDissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, \u003ci\u003eThe Shock of the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43024444194877,"sku":"9781784785031","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781784785031_p0.jpg?v=1772613226","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781784785031","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}