Anthropocene


The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
That Man is presented as a blind geologic force, such as volcanic eruptions or variations in solar radiation, is an expression of the naturalized or fetishized form of social relations that is prevalent in capitalism.
Daniel Cunha

A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount of sediment moved each year by Earth’s natural erosive processes, which is to say rivers grinding away sand and sending it down towards the sea. Humans, in other words, are a considerably bigger geological force than nature itself, and have been, according to the data, ever since 1955. Or – another w ...more
Ed Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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