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Politics and the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Politics and the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate
connections between human life and the natural environment, but it
has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications
does that fracturing have for how we should think about politics in
these new times? In this cutting-edge intervention, Duncan Kelly
considers how this new geological era could shape our future by
engaging with the recent past of our political thinking. If
politics remains a short-term affair governed by electoral cycles,
could an Anthropocenic sense of time, value and prosperity be built
into it, altering long-established views about abundance, energy
and growth? Is the Anthropocene so disruptive that it is no more
than a harbinger of ecological doom, or can modern politics adapt
by rethinking older debates about states, territories, and
populations? Kelly rejects both pessimistic fatalism about
humanity's demise, and an optimistic fatalism that makes the
Anthropocene into a problem too big for politics, best left to the
market or technology to solve. His skilful defence of the potential
for democratic politics to negotiate this challenge is an
indispensable guide to the ideas that matter most to understanding
this epochal transformation.
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