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Making the Most of the Anthropocene

Name: Making the Most of the Anthropocene
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421423005
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421423005

Facing the Future

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By Mark Denny
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 224

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Ever since Nobel Prizewinning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the term "Anthropocene" to describe our current eraone in which human impact on the environment has pushed Earth into an entirely new geological epocharguments for and against the new designation have been raging. Finally, an official working group of scientists was created to determine once and for all whether we humans have tossed one too many plastic bottles out the car window and wrought a change so profound as to be on par with the end of the last ice age. In summer 2016, the answer came back: Yes.

In Making the Most of the Anthropocene, scientist Mark Denny tackles this hard truth head-on and considers burning questions: How did we reach our present technological and ecological state? How are we going to cope with our uncertain future? Will we come out of this, or are we doomed as a species? Is there anything we can do about what happens next? This book:

explains what the Anthropocene is and why it is important

offers suggestions for minimizing harm instead of fretting about an impending environmental apocalypse

combines easy-to-grasp scientific, technological, economic, and anthropological analyses

In Making the Most of the Anthopocene, there are no equations, no graphs, and no impenetrable jargon. Instead, you'll find a fascinating cast of characters, including journalists from outer space, peppered moths, and unjustly maligned Polynesians. In his bright, lively voice, Denny envisions a future that balances reaction and reason, one in which humanity emerges bloody but unbowedand in which those of us who are prepared can make the most of the Anthropocene.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Stratigraphythe Top Layer
2. Neptune versus Pluto
3. The Age of Man?
4. Martha
5. Industrial Revelations
6. Moore's Law
7. Building BRICS
8. Peppered Moths
9. Globalization
10. Smartphones Are (from) Everywhere
11. The Population Bomb
12. Manna from Science
13. Fat Americans
14. Climatology 101
15. Greenhouse Effects
16. Global Warning
17. 2 C or Not 2 C, That Is the Question
18. Tipping Points and Tipplers
19. Climate Change Protocols
20. Rapa Nui Not
21. Ozone Whole
22. The Good
23. The Bad
24. Frack Attack
25. The Ugly
26. Gridlock
27. Not Monsters, Inc., nor the Four Horsemen
28. Scottish Philosophy and Nuclear Power
29. You Suck at Statistics
30. On the Cusp
31. Four Fixes
32. Über Alles
33. Sherlock Holmes and the Anthropocene Deduction
34. Ferguson versus Krugman
35. Nobody Understands Economics
36. Winners and Losers
37. The Prisoner's Dilemma
38. Deforestation
39. The Peter Principle
40. Collective Stupidity
41. ABC but Not D
42. Where Are You Going, My Little One?
Bibliography
Index

""Denny's humane tone makes reading his book feel good for the soul... chapter-essays are fascinating, opinionated, and subversive... In this book, Denny has expanded his scope to cover a lot more than science, and readers will benefit from his ambition.""

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