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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

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.

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.

"This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage. The author applies what he has learned throughout his career to go beyond science. After an introduction setting the scene and a review of the "scientific temper" and the inexcusable ignorance of science by some leaders and many followers, the author turns his sharp vision to look at other issues. The most significant challenges are critical and global: climate change caused by our activities, stockpiles of nuclear weapons that are a constant threat, population growth, and increasing inequality at all levels. These problems do have a profound ethical character and threaten to end forever with our misery, producing a "catastrophic convergence". Written with rigor for all readers, with many references and infused with relevant quotations, the author's message is clear: we need to change our ways drastically and urgently, now or never. But he offers not much in terms of a solution, something done by many authors to sweeten the pill, because as he argues, beyond lofty declarations, there is no real solution as the clock runs down, leading to his dystopian view of the future"--

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.