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We're all prone to excess, even in discussions of excess, observes biologist and science writer Marlene Zuk. This year has been marked by another rainfall of books about humans destroying the environment in which they evolved, a few about the a priori Darwinian mismatch between humans and their so-called "natural" environments, and a great many more about the even greater mismatch between humans and their constructed environments. This month's Digital Edition gathers some of the best essays and reviews from LARB's Science Section that deal with aspects of the mismatch, and how scientific disco

"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"--

"Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, reduced nutritional levels in crops, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world's poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that, while we wait for the world's governments to get serious about mitigating climate change, we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education"--

Intro -- The Environmental Alarmist -- The Environmental Alarmist -- PART ONE -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- PART TWO -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- PART THREE -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.

Obálka -- Obsah -- Předmluva -- 1. Na co poukazuje případ Velikonočního ostrova -- 2. Základy historie -- 3. Devadesát devět procent dějin -- 4. První velký skok -- 5. Destrukce a přežití -- 6. Nekonečné úsilí -- 7. Myšlenkové směry -- 8. Drancování světa -- 9. Základy nerovnosti -- 10. Nemoci a smrt -- 11. Velká čísla -- 12. Druhý velký skok -- 13. Vzestup měst -- 14. Vznik blahobytné společnosti -- 15. Znečišťování světa -- 16. Globální systém v ohrožení -- 17. Stín minulosti -- Doporučená literatura -- Rejstřík

Cover Leben zwischen Natur und Kultur E-BOOK -- Inhalt -- Prolog -- Das Rohe, das Gekochte und Rocky Balboas Eier als zeitweilige Referenz -- Technik- und Lebenswissenschaften: Grenzverschiebungen / Neuorientierungen -- Die kontrollierte Simulation der Unkontrollierbarkeit. Kontroll- und Wissensformen in der Technowissenschaftskultur -- Natur in der Krise. Die Technisierung der Lebenswelt und die Antiquiertheit biokonservativer Technikkritik -- Zur Funktion des 'nackten Lebens' als Außenseite des Sozialen für die Herstellung eines Akteurmodells für Cyborgs. Oder: Die kulturelle Leistung einer Naturalisierung sozialer Akteure als Menschen -- Technikwissenschaften: Nanotechnologie und synthetische Biologie -- Posthumanismus und Menschenwürde -- Natürlich Nano. Die argumentative Kraft von Naturkonzepten in Laiendiskussionen zu Nanotechnologie -- Die Nanotechnologie findet nicht statt -- Lebenswissenschaften: Medizin und Genetik -- Das Primat der 'Natur' im Gegensatz zur 'Künstlichkeit' in der Medizin der Aufklärung -- Kulturelle Monster beherrschen. Erkundungen zur Einführung prädiktiver Gentests -- Umweltkonzepte in der Epigenetik -- Autorinnen und Autoren.

Australia was the first country in the world to officially ban old fashioned incandescent light bulbs as a solution to climate change but was it a good idea? In fact does anything we do in Australia really make any difference?