Requiem for a Species - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Requiem for a Species write by Clive Hamilton. This book was released on 2010. Requiem for a Species available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Requiem for a Species
Requiem for a Species - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Requiem for a Species write by Clive Hamilton. This book was released on 2014-06-17. Requiem for a Species available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings ... One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future.
Requiem of the Human Soul
Requiem of the Human Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Requiem of the Human Soul write by Jeremy Lent. This book was released on 2008-11. Requiem of the Human Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Defiant Earth
Defiant Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defiant Earth write by Clive Hamilton. This book was released on 2017-06-05. Defiant Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Earthmasters
Earthmasters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earthmasters write by Clive Hamilton. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Earthmasters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVThis book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?” has been superseded by a more frightening one, “what can be done to prevent the devastation of the living world?” And the disturbing answer, now under wide discussion both within and outside the scientific community, is to seize control of the very climate of the Earth itself./divDIV /divDIVClive Hamilton begins by exploring the range of technologies now being developed in the field of geoengineering--the intentional, enduring, large-scale manipulation of Earth’s climate system. He lays out the arguments for and against climate engineering, and reveals the extent of vested interests linking researchers, venture capitalists, and corporations. He then examines what it means for human beings to be making plans to control the planet’s atmosphere, probes the uneasiness we feel with the notion of exercising technological mastery over nature, and challenges the ways we think about ourselves and our place in the natural world./div
