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Introduction : Confronting the human age --Survival in the savannas --Consuming passions --Conservation paradox --Limits to growth : hope or despair? --Lessons from disasters --Why some succeed where others fail --Icons of two worlds --Altruistic species --Breaking biological barriers --Domesticating nature --Ecological emancipation --Global express --Converging worlds --Our novel age --Modern conservation movement --Unnatural reconnections --New tools for a new age --Cleaning our planetary nest --Nature and human well-being --Natural capital --City and the planet --Conclusion : From conservation philosophy to citizen action.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett -- The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea / Rob Nixon -- Hubris -- Anthropocene in a Jar / Tomas Matza and Nicole Heller -- Concretes Speak: A Play in One Act / Rachel Harkness, Cristián Simonetti, and Judith Winter -- The Age of (a) Man / Joseph Masco -- The Manual Pesticide Spray Pump / Michelle Mart and Cameron Muir -- Hubris or Humility? Genealogies of the Anthropocene / Gregg Mitman -- Living And Dying -- Huia Echoes / Julianne Lutz Warren -- Snarge / Gary Kroll -- Marine Animal Satellite Tags / Nils Hanwahr -- Artificial Coral Reef / Josh Wodak -- Cryogenic Freezer Box / Elizabeth Hennessy -- Racism and the Anthropocene / Laura Pulido -- Sabotaging the Anthropocene -- or, In Praise of Mutiny / Marco Armiero -- Laboring -- On Possibility -- or, The Monkey Wrench / Daegan Miller -- The Germantown Calico Quilt / Bethany Wiggin -- Anthropocene Aesthetics / Robert S. Emmett -- Making -- The Mirror- Testing the Counter- Anthropocene / Sverker Sörlin -- Objects from Anna Schwartz's Cabinet of Curiosities / Judit Hersko -- Technofossil / Jared Farmer -- Davies Creek Road / Trisha Carroll and Mandy Martin -- Anthropocene Cabinets of Curiosity: Objects of Strange Change / Libby Robin -- Contributors

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I Opening Wor(l)ds -- 1 Introduction -- Naturecultural Imagination in Times of Environmental Damage -- References -- 2 Approaching Infrastructural Being -- Naturecultural Approach to Infrastructures -- Infrastructural Being as Metabolism -- Politics of Metabolism -- More-Than-Human Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Future-Making -- 3 Anticipatory Infrastructures, Emerging Technologies and Visions of Energy Futures -- Introduction -- Infrastructures as Anticipatory Devices -- Visions of Automation as Anticipatory Infrastructures -- Integrating Distributed Energy Resources -- Load-Shifting -- Energy Market and Price Motivations -- Questioning Anticipatory Infrastructures -- Automated Futures Visions as Ethnographic Sites -- Laundry as a Contingent Practice and Ethics of Care -- Solar Optimisation, Gamification and Everyday Ethics -- Automated Systems and Everyday Irregularities -- Towards the Ethics of Automation as Anticipatory Infrastructure -- References -- 4 Assembling Wild Nature: Icelandic Wildness as a Natureculture Meshwork -- Introduction -- Before the Journey -- The Golden Circle -- First Stop: Thingvellir -- Second Stop: Geysir -- Third Stop: Gullfoss -- After the Journey -- References -- Part III Naturecultural Citizenship -- 5 The Social Class and Lifestyle Embeddedness of Being Within Energy Infrastructures -- Introduction: Energy Infrastructures as Class Positioning -- Class, Habitus, and Lifestyle Groups -- The Empirical Case and Data -- Class, Habitus, and Infrastructural Being -- Differentiating Life Chances -- Embedded in Lifestyle Groups -- Durable Materiality -- Action Orienting -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Circular Economy as Infrastructural Change: Waste Citizenship in the Bin -- Introduction.

Section I:Atmosphere:1.Chemical components and distributions in precipitation in the Third Pole /Lekhendra Tripathee, Shichang Kang, Chaoliu Li, Shiwei Sun and Chhatra Mani Sharma --2.Chemical components and distributions of aerosols in the Third Pole /Kirpa Ram, Hemraj Bhattarai and Zhiyuan Cong.

Introduction: Science won't save us -- Part I: It's warming. It's us. Carbon is forever ; We're the asteroid ; Uprooting exploitation, sowing regeneration -- Part II: We're sure. It's bad. Sink into your grief ; Making meaning in a warming world ; Face your fears ; Get angry -- Part III: We can fix it. Climate change isn't fair ; Slowing down and staying grounded ; Food shouldn't come from a factory ; Values and costs ; The personal is political ; Being a good ancestor ; Conclusion: Under the sky we make ; TLDR (too long, didn't read).

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Mark Maslin, Professor of Geography at University College London. The conversation explores Prof. Maslin's research on the Anthropocene which according to his definition began when human impacts on the planet irrevocably started to change the course of the Earth's biological and geographical trajectory, leading to climate change, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and more.This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, On Being A Superpower, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. Howard Burton was the Founding Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy. This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert in a focused yet informal setting to provide a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks.

Intro -- Our Inherently Controversial Human Nature - and How We Should Hack It -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- Traces of Our Past -- Our Ego -- We Are Alone -- Being Submissive -- Rearing Children -- Scenarios of Our Extinction -- Ignorantly Avoiding Adaptation -- Cosmic Impact -- The Atomisation of Societies -- Shrinking Population -- Getting Over Tipping Points -- Failing to Solve the Basic Free-Rider Problem -- Carpe Diem -- Tidying Up After Ourselves -- Controversies of Distribution -- Controversies of Efficiency -- Aiming for Balance Between Our Environment and Our Global Economy -- How We Should Hack Our Controversial Human Nature?.

The fleeting visit of the Enlightenment -- Perspective -- A new era and the catastrophic convergence -- A new physical and social setting -- About science -- Three metaphysical revolutions -- Beliefs and knowledge -- The growing ecological footprint -- Ozone and CO2 -- Escape -- Blowback and nuclear weapons -- Post-truth, conspiracies, and denialism -- The tragedy of our time -- Ethics and economics -- What to do? -- Two gates.