Book description
The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities. However, the world remains stuck with…
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For folks who are now thinking how the heck can we make political progress in this locked up and self-destructive world? this book is a clear guide. It breaks down the major things that we should be thinking about as we head into a climate destabilized world. Its core idea is especially relevant and hearkens back to what Pasternak described in her work for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake: the “first virtue” of institutions going forward needs to their responsiveness to ecological feedback, even before their justice. This makes sense, too! Without our institutions being “ecologically reflexive,” they can never…
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