Tag: anthropocene
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An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point?
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The system of fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism is indeed moving toward an end of history, but only in the sense of the end of any historical advance of humanity as a productive, political, and cultural species due to the increasingly barbaric socio-economic and environmental conditions the system creates. There is now no alternative to the end…
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Review: Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus
Reviewed by Kim Scipes. Ian Angus’ book tries to do three things: (1) establish the reality that we’re in a completely new geologic time period (the Anthropocene), and argues that this means that activities of human beings threaten the continued existence of life on this planet; (2) demonstrate that these changes have been brought about…
