Is that the nub of the world's environmental crisis: that in the
business of everyday, we pass by with our connections
unacknowledged? Anthropocene Days gathers 27 easy-to-read short
essays about the environment and climate change in everyday life.
While the world and governments are beset by the great woes of
changing climate, deforestation, species extinction, air pollution,
fouling oceans and so on, we go about individually and locally as
best we can from day to day. Anthropocene Days contends that these
two domains, so apparently separate, are essentially connected. The
book looks at the diverse and mundane activities of daily life to
show how the environment is experienced, and does this very
personally by drawing its observations from the author's life. It
is part memoir, part recent history - a medley of short essays with
themes of landscape change, forests, trees, war, fire, pestilence
and the domestic life of housing, dusting and clutter. Motivated by
present concerns, some reach back to the 1940s. They are set in
Australia, Britain, India, Singapore and America. Anthropocene Days
is a deceptively easy read. It does not hector readers on what to
do, but its ruminations, drawn from long engagement with
environments, encourage reflection on how we pass our everyday
lives while the planet changes.
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