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After Nature - A Politics for the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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After Nature - A Politics for the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
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Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world
we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called
this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The
geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions,
industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species
driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering
without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but
its shape and meaning are questions for politics-a politics that
does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this
post-natural world. Jedediah Purdy begins with a history of how
Americans have shaped their landscapes. He explores the competing
traditions that still infuse environmental law and culture-a
frontier vision of settlement and development, a wilderness-seeking
Romanticism, a utilitarian attitude that tries to manage nature for
human benefit, and a twentieth-century ecological view. These
traditions are ways of seeing the world and humans' place in it.
They are also modes of lawmaking that inscribe ideal visions on the
earth itself. Each has shaped landscapes that make its vision of
nature real, from wilderness to farmland to suburbs-opening some
new ways of living on the earth while foreclosing others. The
Anthropocene demands that we draw on all these legacies and go
beyond them. With human and environmental fates now inseparable,
environmental politics will become either more deeply democratic or
more unequal and inhumane. Where nothing is pure, we must create
ways to rally devotion to a damaged and ever-changing world.
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