Altered Earth

Altered Earth Aims To Get The Anthropocene Right In Three Senses. With Essays By Leading Scientists It Highlights The Growing Consensus That Our Planet Entered A Dangerous New State In The Mid-Twentieth Century. Second It Gets The Anthropocene Right In Human Terms Bringing Together A Range Of Leading Authors To Explore In Fiction And Non-Fiction Our Deep Past Global Conquest Inequality Nuclear Disasters And Space Travel. Finally This Landmark Collection Presents What Hope Might Look Like In This Seemingly Hopeless Situation Proposing New Political Forms And Mutualistic Cities. ''Right'' In This Book Means Being As Accurate As Possible In Describing The Physical Phenomenon Of The Anthropocene; As Balanced As Possible In Weighing The Complex Human Developments Some Willed And Some Unintended That Led To This Predicament; And As Just As Possible In Envisioning Potential Futures.